Comment by dataflow
4 days ago
Dunno the historical reason but I sure as heck find it nice to know without ambiguity that the folder called "share" corresponds to that special directory and isn't a random folder in my home directory for files that were intended to be e.g. shared with someone.
Sure, but I think the better choice for $HOME/.local/share would be $HOME/.share, not $HOME/share
This would match the more recent $HOME/.var that's in widespread use via Flatpak.