The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.

  • coherent_domain@infosec.pubEnglish
    101·
    7 hours ago

    Why is separating the OS with files necessary? I don’t think large files slows down the OS anymore, because of SSD.

    • kevincox@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 hours ago

      For .config it isn’t as important to me, but putting things that can be re-created in .cache (well the proper environment variable that defaults to .cache) is very nice because I don’t need to back up all of that junk.

      But it wouldn’t be unreasonable to put something like .config in a git repo, and storing full history for large and frequently changing files is a waste of space if they aren’t really “config”.

      • coherent_domain@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        16 minutes ago

        Okay I prefer to use FDE for security, especially on laptops, so my data recovery is never going to be trivial, yet with a live environment, also not too difficult.

    • Wrrzag@lemmy.ml
      35·
      12 hours ago

      Because it makes reinstalls really easy. You can just nuke your OS but everything else remains there safely.