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   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   CrudeSausage  wrote at 23:14 this Tuesday (GMT):   
   > 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.   
      
      
   A lot of programs, especially ones originally written for Windows, tend   
   to do that, at least for me.   
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