XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: nuh-uh@nope.com
On 2026-01-20 12:18, vallor wrote:
> 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 ?
>
My Thunderbird data is in ~/Library/Thunderbird
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