May 11, 2026
12:29 a.m.
Instead of changing Wine's default behavior, which is to use the `$HOME/.wine` folder on Linux, would it be possible to have an environment variable to use `XDG_DATA_HOME/wine` if WINEPREFIX is not defined?
For sure. but the plan was to somewhat just move past using $HOME/.wine and I never got word from somebody with merge rights on what to do
I know that not using XDG_DATA_HOME is seen as a problem, but Wine is also used via launchers, which generally avoid `$HOME/.wine` and even allow the user to choose which folder to use as a prefix.
Yea I know and the only prefix I have in $HOME is the default one, thus existence of the pr/issue -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10543#note_139386