Re:Mozilla Firefox and silent updates
by huhtenberg on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @01:36PM
(#3076642)
> the choice of installing 'for me'
Right, and this puts program files into a system directory, but the Start Menu shortcuts into the user's profile. That's not exactly "for me", isn't it?
> Profiles belong to the user. The application belongs - in a Windows world, in a Linux world - to the system / administrator.
That's in a Linux world that is modeled after the Windows one. In a traditional #nix world there are system binaries and there are user binaries. If the user needs something that is not readily available on the box, or if he needs a specific version or whatever, he can install it into ~/bin. Point being, that on Windows this is not even an option. There is no standard location to put user's personal program files into.
Right, and this puts program files into a system directory, but the Start Menu shortcuts into the user's profile. That's not exactly "for me", isn't it?
> Profiles belong to the user. The application belongs - in a Windows world, in a Linux world - to the system / administrator.
That's in a Linux world that is modeled after the Windows one. In a traditional #nix world there are system binaries and there are user binaries. If the user needs something that is not readily available on the box, or if he needs a specific version or whatever, he can install it into ~/bin. Point being, that on Windows this is not even an option. There is no standard location to put user's personal program files into.