XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07   
    wrote:   
      
   > CrudeSausage  wrote at 17:47 this Tuesday (GMT):   
   > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:39:27 +0000, vallor wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> So say you side-load a Mac app.  You usually get a .dmg which you   
   > >> mount, then drag the app folder on top of the handy alias for the   
   > >> system app folders.   
   > >>   
   > >> That's fine, but what if you want to uninstall?  There doesn't   
   > >> seem to be much of a package manager involved.   
   > >>   
   > >> But on Linux, apps are in packages that are tracked by the system.   
   > >>  When you uninstall an app on Linux, the default is to take away   
   > >> the app without touching config files -- but with the apt/dpkg   
   > >> "purge" option, the package system will clean out the config   
   > >> files, too.   
   > >>   
   > >> (Not user dot-files though, those are yours to keep.)   
   > >   
   > > Generally, even after I purge an application in Linux, its settings   
   > > remain. You have to manually delete the folder in .config the same   
   > > way you would in any other operating system. Of course, it's a lot   
   > > easier to do on Linux since those folders are exactly where you   
   > > would expect them to be, not lost in the registry or some obscure   
   > > folder.   
   >   
   >   
   > Unfortunately, theres a LOT of applications that dump everything in   
   > the home folder instead of just using the prebuilt stuff. Still not   
   > HARD to find, but tis very annoying. My person home folder has over   
   > 200 folders.   
      
   Right now my newsreader keeps its local files in ~/.newscamel -- is   
   it better to keep that in ~/.config/newscamel ?   
      
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