[saba2008]

>Some things you need to hide from the end user. De-emphasize - maybe, hide - no. Garbage pile that is average Linux home directory is pretty much result of 'out of sight - out of mind' practice, enabled by dotfiles being hidden. I wish Linux settled on single `~/System/` directory, mirroring `/` structure.

On the other hand, dotfiles convention is useful for meta/"parallel" data, `.git` being prime example - something tighly linked with abitrary file structure.

[andix]

Sure, the dot files in ~/ are a mess.

It would be so much cleaner if the convention would've bin similar to /var, /etc, and so on. ~/.var/cache or ~/.etc/