I came here after an IRC request for help on bug 48506. I am not the one who can make the ultimate decision either, but I don't think this is something we want to change at this point. To summarise the issues pointed out so far: 1) What about non-Linux OSes? While it is legitimate to not care about them as an individual contributor, as a project we do care, so a change that affects other OSes should be made by someone who understands and can test the impact. 2) What about existing prefixes? 3) And to add an unspoken concern: What exact problem are you solving, and are you sure you are not just replacing it with different issues. Yes the XDG spec is a thing, and I like that programs (slowly) stop spamming my $HOME with .files and .folders. Wine exists way longer than XDG though and has a grown ecosystem of third party tools to manage its prefixes. We have to keep those in mind too. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10543#note_139365