On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>... perhaps with a different operating system than I use, Mark. I >>don't run Windows. I like the integration of how things work with my >>configuration of Mac OS X. > > With Windows the applications can find their configuration files, ICC > profiles, etc even if they're on a different drive, so integration is > maintained. I suspect some things may even work marginally faster when > files are being read of two drives instead of one. >
Windows strongly segregates application and OS installs in the directory tree, so seperating them works better. The flip side being that Windows encourages applications to install shared libraries into the OS install where OS X discourages this. Neither OS handles a reinstall of the OS without reinstalling at least some applications well. OS X does handle it better as it does tend to discourage hooking into the OS install directory more than Windows does so most applications are self-contained and the Applications folder can often just be copied over with a few exceptions like Office and Photoshop needing reinstalls. M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
