> No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux.

I've only been using Linux for a few weeks but what am I missing here?

I set a bunch of mime types in `~/.config/mimeapps.list` which are assigned to desktop apps and they all open perfectly with `xdg-open` or when I launch them through a file manager.

It is documented in the XDG specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps/latest/file....

Great. I must be living on the moon then. I guess gnome work great there since it manages this part

I probably haven't. :) They are a nightmare indeed. But it does help a little.

Making home read-only can get there, and I can't find the project that forced using XDG paths. I think it used LD_PRELOAD or somesuch trick.

edit: https://soc.me/standards/defending-home

That was the exact reason for it. I made my own window manager for fun and was missing a simple way of changing default apps.

I haven't thought about this. That makes sense. I will add this.

I do agree with some of your sentiment. But by that logic, nothing would ever be made.

The same goes with aliases. Why not just use the actual commands. You give it your best shot, and sometimes something good comes out. And sometimes it's crap. That's life.

And I made it for fun and to learn something. And it wasn't AI coded. It's like 200 lines. I wanted to learn termbox2.h a bit more than I already had.

Let people make and use what they want, you don’t have to use it.

reading the code, what make you think it was vibe coded?