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I don't see the use-case for this that couldn't be handled by syncthing, rclone, github, or whatever offline storage you're using for backups. I think I'm missing something...
Yes, you're missing something. AppImage's portable config feature can also make you use your config on other drive. You don't need to symlink your config to ~/.config. you can use your config directly on your other drive
Yeah, but why would I want to do that? I don't understand what problem this is solving...
The benefit is that I can save a fraction of a second by not having to symlink a config file... At the cost of having to use a bloated app system?
AppImage's portable config feature is very useful if you use live usb, and AppImage's portable config feature makes your ~/ clean from scattered application configs
Ah ok, now that makes a bit more sense. Yeah, I guess for the sake of app portability, appimages and the like do make a lot of sense.