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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by bane on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:18AM (#10450240)
Putting on my conspiracy theory hat for a second, I bet this had to do with killing Java on the desktop or something.

Nothing made it harder to get people to use Java apps then telling them to download and install a runtime and then add some path things to some mercurial and hard to use part of the OS.

Just about the only time I've ever had to interact with the path dialog on a windows system its been for the purpose of setting up java.

And sun/oracle hasn't done any favors for themselves either in making the setup process better.

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by mistermann on Monday October 26, 2015 @09:46AM (#10451341)
> And sun/oracle hasn't done any favors for themselves either in making the setup process better.

Massive understatement! :)

As well, in my limited experience, vendors who write something java-based absolutely can't be bothered to write a help document on how to configure java to run their app despite hundreds of people posting in forums asking for help...."not our problem, you should know how to do that" seems to be the sentiment.

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