XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 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.   
      
   I don't have that many, but at least I know that the ones I do have were   
   created by me. I never found anything as annoying as every Windows program   
   deciding that it would create a folder for itself in your "My Documents"   
   folder. My understanding was that this was supposed to be a personal   
   folder; why programs were doing anything in there was beyond me. It   
   bothered me enough that I made an actual "Personal" folder inside of "My   
   Documents" just to avoid the garbage.   
      
      
      
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