You’re welcome :)

It’s one of the knacks of Linux, stuff is pretty much compartmentalized, permissions are robust, and things look alien coming from windows :)

If I had to make an analogy, the home folder is like your user folder in windows.

Except, everything you install trough Steam, Discovery store or manually (without needing to use the pacman command) will end up there too.

For how SteamOs is made, system files are in a different compartment and cannot be modified by the user, they can only be run.

So anything you can download or modify gets stored in your home folder somewhere.

Only exceptions are programs installed with pacman (the package manager, but again due to how SteamOs is made, before using pacman you have to break temporarily the seal on system files).

It’s not a bazaar where any program can store it’s settings in whatever folder. Linux native stuff will place all config files and data in a folder inside your home folder.

The neat trick is that windows games are placed in a prefix, which is a folder containing all the game files, the game saves, and all the files needed to make it believe to be executed in a real instance of windows.