XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:10:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It's a common behaviour, and one that annoyed me to no end. The very fact   
   that the folder is called "_My_ Documents" should mean that third-party   
   applications would stay out of it. There should be a directory in which   
   applications can create a subdirectory, not interfere with the user's own   
   folders.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)