I’ve seen a lot of self-hosted software wanting to store their data in /opt, is there any reason why?

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    3 months ago

    My best guess is that having programs treat a user’s home directly as a location for things like config files is deprecated. Programs should be following the XDG standard instead.

    You could contact the author (their email address is in the image), but I’m too lazy to do that.