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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-20 12:10, 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.   
      
   On macOS there is an organized folder in every home folder called   
   "Library", and within it, an established way for applications to store   
   their configuration data.   
      
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