[hvenev]

Will you not have `~/.ssh`? If you have `.ssh .config/ssh` as a rewrite rule, `stat ~/.ssh` will still find it.

[txtsd]

The point is to have a clean home directory.

[jl6]

Abandon hope.

I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /.

[trollbridge]

You could write a kernel module, then, that just hides certain symlinks from you (which is effectively what this module is).

[ComputerGuru]

On Windows this was always easier because, for some reason, most everyone respected %appdata% compared to XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also because hidden files wasn’t just a naming convention but an actual separate metadata flag.

[Joker_vD]

That ship has sailed 30 years ago.