contoursvt said:And that would be a 2x improvement over OSX now which half the time doesnt even give you an unistaller so you gotta get rid of it manually which means hunting for stuff in the system and library folders too.
Not at all.
OSX Applications don't require bits and pieces of programs to be installed in mutiple different places. THe prefference folder/file system is the only real part that an application *may* take advantage off, and those are relatively small and inert files. For example my 2.5 year old system has 444 items in the prefs folder. I know what you're thinking, "omg see, see!" but these files account for 14.1mb of my disk space. That's an average of 32.5k per prefference file btw
While a few of them are useless, it's comforting to know if I reinstall Escape Velocity my profiles will all be ready and waiting for me!
The only justification to your post I see is in the Applications Support foler. There Ihave 290mb spread across 51 folders for major applications. All of these Applications though, excluding Unreal Tournament, are all still installed on my system. I don't know how much of that 290 is taken up by none Apple software either...
What erks me the most about Windows installs/uninstalls is that 99.9% of the time, in OSX when you delete the application file of a program, you will NEVER hear from that application again, and will only remember it if you go digging for it's 32k pref file. However in windows you can delete the application, but still get bugged by the program.
Just my take...
~Earendil
~Tyler