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Gabe Schmitz

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I disagree with @Remco Haszing. I use a tool called Syncthing to synchronize my .minecraft folder between different machines - including Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. While my use case is quite rare, people using a USB drive or other methods to sync between multiple operating systems (even on the same machine via dual-boot) is not uncommon. This would be much more difficult if the directories were scattered across XDG directories. My proposal is to, instead, simply place the .minecraft directory in $XDG_DATA_HOME/minecraft. I know this is technically against the XDG specification, but I believe it's necessary to maintain compatibility with other operating systems and ease of backups.

I also disagree with @Daniel Wasiak. The issue with that proposal is that it is, again, splitting up the .minecraft folder, which causes issues with things like Forge. I, for one, like having my installed versions easily synced between my computers without having to sync multiple folders. Maybe there could be an option to either install system-wide or on a per-user basis instead?

 

EDIT: I was unaware that Jira does not use Markdown when I initially wrote this comment. My mistake has been corrected.