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Belatedly following up .... Yeah, this is one of the great things about the traditional Unix way...
It's just a tickbox in Windows 98, which I'm still happy with. It's the minimum to run most games, so it does me, and it runs the same newsreader I've been using 7 or so years.
Mess" is not a bad description, AFAICT: Looking at the dot-something files and directories in my home directory, there's .gnome, .gnome2, and .gnome2private. (Why all three? Yeah.) But there's also .gconf and...
I noticed fixing my sisters computer, it's a lot more clicks to do stuff in control panel, they really don't want you to set anything yourself if they can help it.
It was one of the first boxes I ticked, of course.
I *know!* WTF does a word-processor need with that? And the stupid default for their mail reader to automatically run any scripts anyone might feel like emailing you.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry when the latest "email worm costs billions" story comes out. They're ALWAYS using Outlook, but the blame always falls 100% on the barely-capable programmer of the worm, who I could out-C and probably most other things.
XML is a lousy format for that sort of thing. It solves the easy problems and on the strength...
It's their own stupid fault, corporate software policies and all, which they're largely blackmailed into by licensing control.
Oh, and they always *add* things. For security, half of the crap needs taking away.
I just thought there might be some formal analysis on why the biggest software company totally bites.
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