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I go to uninstall Google Chrome (I missed all of the extra features Firefox has, and it really doesn't seem that much faster). C:\. Program Files. Google.   Hmm, where is Chrome? It turns out it installs itself completely to something like C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome. What the fuck? And because Chrome is marketed in that Apple-style "the user is a complete idiot" way, I never got the familiar choice (something of a human right) of where to install it. So much shit has come about because of multiple user support. Linux has done quite well (although I could rant forever about the UNIX directory structure). In my mind, multiple usery is dead. Everyone has their own laptop nowadays with a single user account. As it is at the moment, Documents and Settings is full of so much random shit. Temporary files that have become permanent files unknowingly. Things like your start menu and your desktop get spread across different directories. You get arrogant programs like Chrome installing themselves to the middle of fucking nowhere. It's a problem on workstations too. You get files left over locally, bogging down the system and compromising security. While I'm at it, what the fuck is Program Files\Common Files? I managed to delete about 500MB from Documents and Settings, and I've cut my Windows directory down from 5GB to just over 1GB. That shouldn't be possible. Why is my computer full of shit?		2010-03-179:38 PM
BrandonRe:rant
I fully agree with you. On a shared desktop at home that my mom and brother use, it had WinXP and their user accounts were set as limited, because my dad didn't want them installing software to slow his computer down. But, because of the f*cked up user and directory system, they couldn't save in one of their games. The game tried to write save data in its program files folder, but user permissions prevented this.  Linux and MacOS really aren't any better, on a Mac if you turn on hidden files, you can see that its directory structure is basically like that of Linux. If you are a linux guru, I'm sure it makes sense, but for the end user it is overly complecated.		2010-03-1810:59 AM
HorvatMRe:rant
Well said. But hey, this is The GUI Blog, we make our own GUIs here, so at least we have the option of making a better system :)		2010-03-193:04 PM
TheWalrusRe:rant
"The game tried to write save data in its program files folder, but user permissions prevented this." Microsoft has stated in its developers documentation since the release of Windows NT that programs should never save data in the program files folder, but many software developers have ignored or simply never been aware of this because they haven't read the documentation. So now that Windows prevents it, some of these older, badly coded programs won't work properly. Windows 7 fixes this in a lot of programs by using "VirtualStore" folders, but there are still some older programs which have issues.		2010-03-2010:56 AM

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