find .[^.]* | wc -l
no it's the same as find .* | wc -l
because * does not substitute leading dots
for example
rm -R delme/*
won't remove delme/../
ls -1 .[^.]* | wc -l
this won't catch conf dirs like .gnome
or .config/*
You're catching a lot with that command other than configuration
files, like browser cache, thumbnails, et al.
correct, but that was intentional
Frields!
does any body want caches to be encrypted
aren't cache are supposed to speed things up