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Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by eviks on Sunday February 19, 2023 @02:56AM (#34855487)
How is this fair at all? 1. This is "only true" for almost all the apps 2. A much better alternative without that waste already exists in 3rd-party apps, so no new packaging format is needed to fix it 3. Is this new shiny toy MSIX the one that doesn't even allow changing installation path?
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Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by mike_hearn on Sunday February 19, 2023 @08:15AM (#34857320)
The problems you're describing are technically problems of apps, not really problems of Windows (any more). Yes arguably the line is blurred, you can say this is a pedantic distinction because Windows = the apps that people use. But the tech is there.

MSIX indeed picks the install path for you but very few users want to change it these days. Chrome installer doesn't let you pick either.

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Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable by mike_hearn on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:58AM (#34935975)
Your post went dead for some reason, but that seemed unfair so I vouched for you and upvoted it. We may not fully agree on this, but your discussion is civilized and should not have been flagged.
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