Re: Equivalent Replacement Windows Apps for a "Switcher"

In article <ea8e4r$di2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Calum <com.gmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sally Thompson wrote:

As a recent switcher myself, I understand your caution. However, one of
the
real beauties of a Mac over a Windows PC is the ease of installing and
uninstalling software. To uninstall, all you normally need to do is just
drag it to the Trash and it's gone. None of that messing about with the
Registry, or bits and pieces left here and there all over your system.

That somewhat depends how you installed it, to be honest... you're right
if you installed the app by dragging an icon into your Applications
folder (although even then it'll probably still leave a Preferences file
behind when you delete it). But apps with a proper installer usually
require an uninstaller (or a bit of educated poking around) to get rid
of everything.

I disagree. Apps as varied as MT-Newswatcher, GraphicConverter, and
Eudora simply get dragged to the trash. No uninstaller. That takes care
of everything except, as you said, an orphan pref file of little disk
space and no importance. I'd poke around for those when I'm bored in
general.
I would make no such assumption of Microsoft products on the Mac. I
don't use them. Nor of the occasional UNIX apps I install.
But an entire UNIX subfolder /sw can be created with everything I want
to use, and if I get bored with that, I can delete /sw and it's gone.
I realize that core UNIX apps are more difficult and easily can be
dangerous to get rid of. I have no interest in dumping vim or emacs,
although I dumped emacs on Linux several years ago. Then I searched for
accidentally deleted but needed emacs libs and such for a while.
But a well packaged Mac app has everything associated with it tied into
an executable icon with the exception of the damned aforementioned pref
file or folder.
But I'd be interested in comments to show my folly.

leo

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