Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Jun 2006 22:28 UTC
Last week's column was basically a rant about things that bothered me about Ubuntu's GNOME/Linux combination. Besides the usual 'I do not experience the problems you have, so you must be an anti-GNOME troll!' and of the course the ever-present 'How on earth can you complain about Free software!', it did what is was supposed to do: bring problems under developer's direct attention (for instance, Evolution's UI maintainer emailed me, asking for more clarification). Now it's Apple's turn. Here is a list of problems I find the most annoying about Apple's Mac/MacOS.
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RE[3]: Configuration Files
by Morgan on Mon 12th Jun 2006 14:49
in reply to "RE[2]: Configuration Files"
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The only reason I can see for not removing configuration files would be that I'm uninstalling an application in order to reinstall it, and therefore do not want to lose my configuration.
That is a very good point. However, there are times when you are uninstalling and want to get rid of a bad configuration as well; in other words, you want to wipe it completely before reinstalling. All OSes have a hard time with this, but Apple does indeed make it more difficult than others.
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2005-10-02
Nice to see you bring it up.
The only reason I can see for not removing configuration files would be that I'm uninstalling an application in order to reinstall it, and therefore do not want to lose my configuration.
However, it shouldn't be that much of a problem making it optional to remove (or leave) configuration files.
I wonder what your directory structure looks like since it can make kids cry
EDIT: Not much fun for me in this year's WC. Denmark did not qualify and my other team lost to Equador... *sigh*
Edited 2006-06-11 00:20