{
  pkgs,
  config,
  ...
}: {
  home.packages = with pkgs; [xdg-ninja];

  xdg = if pkgs.system == "x86_64-darwin" then {} else {
    enable = true;
    configHome = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.config";
    cacheHome = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.cache";
    dataHome = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.local/share";
    stateHome = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.local/state";

    userDirs = {
      enable = true;
      # writes ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
      desktop = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/desktop";
      download = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/downloads";
      documents = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/documents";
      pictures = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/pictures";
      videos = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/videos";
      music = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/music";
      publicShare = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/public";
      templates = "${config.home.homeDirectory}/templates";
    };
  };

  # misc env variables to get things out of ~ (<3 xdg-ninja)
  home.sessionVariables = if pkgs.system == "x86_64-darwin" then {} else {
    GOPATH="$XDG_DATA_HOME/go";
    _JAVA_OPTIONS=''-Djava.util.prefs.userRoot="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/java'';
  };

}