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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Yeah, that's a risk. However you'll always risk having leftovers from programs, even when continuing to use an OS, simply because you might switch programs, the developer rethinks where they store the config files, etc..

    In most cases these files are relatively small and won't be very noticeable in the long run. However if that still bothers you have no other choice but to cleanup your config files regardless.

    Also, those config files are generally only for your own user, i.e. user-related configurations, not program-dependent ones. System configs are generally stored outside the user profiles.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Thank you for the reply. I may attempt to muster up the necessary bracket to attempt it!