May 10, 2026
12:11 p.m.
Yo! Instead of changing Wine's default behavior, which is to use the `$HOME/.wine` folder on Linux, would it be possible to have an environment variable to use `XDG_DATA_HOME/wine` if WINEPREFIX is not defined? I imagine it would be better to have something that can be enabled, rather than something that changes the default behavior. I know that not using XDG_DATA_HOME is seen as a problem, but Wine is also used via launchers, which generally avoid `$HOME/.wine` and even allow the user to choose which folder to use as a prefix. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10543#note_139373