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512 points pierrelf | 2 comments | 20 Dec 24 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bisby ◴[20 Dec 24 21:02 UTC] No.42474981[source]▶
Launching the Linux release and noticed in the logs:

Directories:User Directory: /home/bisby/Grayjay

And there is a directory there now. I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this. Ideally, this should be following XDG directory guidelines on linux: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

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koen31 ◴[20 Dec 24 21:37 UTC] No.42475304[source]▶
Grayjay dev here. If you want it to use your user directory like other apps, just remove the file called "Portable". Keep in mind that it just uses your working directory to write files otherwise.
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godDLL ◴[20 Dec 24 21:52 UTC] No.42475423[source]▶
That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.
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freedomben ◴[20 Dec 24 22:15 UTC] No.42475609[source]▶
Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

As a linux user I wanted to make sure to say thank you for supporting and thinking about linux!

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Teever ◴[21 Dec 24 00:35 UTC] No.42476531[source]▶
What exactly is wrong with how they expressed themselves?

Is the word "hate" really so odious?

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1. bisby ◴[21 Dec 24 02:14 UTC] No.42476990[source]▶
I was very blunt and impersonal. People worked hard on a thing and my first reaction was criticism, without even the added overall view of "I love this thing, but here is a small thing that bothers me." I could have been more courteous and human about things.

I stand by the points I made, but I could have been friendlier. I normally make an effort to be friendly as I can about things, but I absolutely did not here. I hope that nothing I said came across as vitriol, but rather, valid criticism. I'm a strong believer in criticizing the things you love, but I need to remember that random comments on HN aren't the place where people know I love the thing, and my criticism needs context.

So no, it wasn't really that odious, but it was other things. Do I feel stricken with guilt or remorse about what I said? No. Could I have been friendlier? yes. Should I have been friendlier? Probably.

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2. acjohnson55 ◴[21 Dec 24 05:34 UTC] No.42477744[source]▶
I appreciate the reflection here.