Might be worth looking into immutable distros (nix, guix) and their home management systems, or containerised apps (flatpak, where you can inject config). A lot of tools are hardcoded to non standard locations so it’s kind of a losing battle by default. A similar strategy would be to use permissions or mount certain folders as read only.
Yay more options
Wow, was pretty heavily bombarded by domains ads just a few weeks ago!
Mostly remember looking at the printer in a game shop thinking I’ll never afford this. Very cool result.
Have you also tried nix, if so did you have any particular reason to stick with guix (maybe the Foss aspect)?
Some lemmy specific improvements submitted for the maintainers to review 😌