On Jul 10, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Paul Hill wrote:
That's the biggest problem with Windows. The core OS (NT) is pretty good. The trouble is to make everything backwards compatible the default has always been to make users administrators. So us lazy programmers assume this is always the case and write programs that write to the installation folder etc.
I think that OS X got it right. Every app is a self-contained bundle. To install an app as a regular user, drag it into your home folder. To install an app system-wide, drop it into the root Applications folder, assuming that you have admin privileges. Done.
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