diff --git a/changes.txt b/changes.txt
index f8ab3ccd4..4bb4e86ea 100644
--- a/changes.txt
+++ b/changes.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ LOVE 0.7.0 [Game Slave]
   * Changed the traceback in the error screen.
   * Changed font origin to top-left.
   * Changed behavior of love.physics.newWorld(w, h), it now creates a w*h world, not a 4*w*h world.
+  * Changed linux save dir location to obey to Freedesktop.org's XDG specs. (~/.local/share/love by default.)
 
   * Removed font functions from love.graphics.
 
diff --git a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h
index 62e31dcae..3a5018b86 100644
--- a/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h
+++ b/src/modules/filesystem/physfs/Filesystem.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 #	ifdef LOVE_MACOSX
 #		define LOVE_APPDATA_FOLDER "LOVE"
 #	elif defined(LOVE_LINUX)
-#		define LOVE_APPDATA_FOLDER "LOVE"
+#		define LOVE_APPDATA_FOLDER "love"
 #	else
 #		define LOVE_APPDATA_FOLDER ".love"
 #	endif