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I don't think its surprising at all that a document entitled "Dotfiles Matter" about not dumping Unix-style dotfile configuration files into a user's home directory doesn't mention an operating system that doesn't use Unix-style configuration dotfiles.

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The Windows itself may not use dotfiles (although VS Code does IIRC), but lots of stuff lazily ported to Windows, including Git for Windows, do place random dotfiles straight into %USERPROFILE%, which they arguably shouldn't.

The linked Go library in the original article correctly places dot files in the correct Windows folder. Most of the others don’t.

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