Standard Notes electron app fails trying to get userData

[andrewhelwer]

The issue was that my ~/.config was set to require root permissions for writes for some reason, don’t know how that happened; switched it to being owned by my user and this fixed the problem.

What is the best way to deal with apps that want to write to ~/.config?

There are quite a lot of these apps. Some ones I’ve run into: Foliate (GTK app) Standard Notes (electron app) Signal Desktop (electron app) Element Desktop (electron app) All of them either fail on startup (the electron ones) or run in a degraded mode, like for example Foliate tries to write to a database in ~/.config to remember your preference for having the navigation sidebar popped out or collapsed. On nixOS writing to ~/.config requires root permissions. So what do you do for apps that …