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Bluuuue Rajah turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:

> 
> Everybody rightly criticizes Micro$tiff for selling a crappy OS, and
> Linux is obviuosly better, if you have the time and the expertise to use
> in it, but until this week I didn't understand exaclty why Windows is
> such a POS.
> 
> When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed an
> update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command, the
> reason beame clear.  Windows' install/uninstall method causes bugs to
> accumulate, if programs are not ununstalled in precise the reverse order
> of which they were installed.
> 
> The problem is that terrible method of saving old copies of system
> files, like .ini files, as backups, to be restored when software is
> uninstalled.  So the more apps you uninstall, out of order, the buggier
> your system becomes, until you finally have to reinstall the OS.
> 
> Linux apparently doesn't have anything resembling this problem, which
> makes me wonder, how did the Linux designers (Torvald?) handle this
> problem, and can we learn anything from their solution to help minimize
> the problem with Windows?

Well, that's not entirely true.

Wintendo computers have an issue with uninstalling because of a few reasons.

Mostly, the people who write the applications install things in places they
shouldn't be installing - such as application libraries in places
like %system root%/Windows/Win32.

Also, when they hack thorugh the Wise or Installshield installer they forget
things. So the uninstaller doesn't know exactly what is going on.

If app designers would follow the - now ten-year-old - microsoft
recommendations of installing everything to /program files/app_vendor/app
directories and never using HKLM, then there would not be an issue.

Oh, and I can tell you right now about such a fucked up situation in Linux.
Here's my log of me trying to upgrade VirtualBox from 2.0.6 to 2.1.
Apparently, the RPM manager fucked up and doesn't even know what version I
have nor what dependencies I need.

Like I say - Linux - it sucks slightly less than the competition.

xwing:/home/kai/downloads #
rpm -U ./VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1.i586.rpm
        file /etc/init.d/vboxdrv from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/bin/VBoxManage from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/bin/VBoxSDL from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/bin/VirtualBox from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2GC.gc from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2R0.r0 from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDDGC.gc from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDDR0.r0 from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDDU.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxKeyboard.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxREM.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxRT.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSharedClipboard.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSharedFolders.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxVMM.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOM.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VMMGC.gc from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VMMR0.r0 from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxC.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxSVCM.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMBase.xpt from install
of VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMIPCC.so from install of
VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
        file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VirtualBox_XPCOM.xpt from
install of VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from
package virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
xwing:/home/kai/downloads #        






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