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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 382962" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Never go by what you 'hear from a friend' about the Mac OS X experience. Only go by what you get from forum posts like this one. Random strangers on the internet are always much more reliable when it comes to these situations. :robot: </p><p></p><p>However, to the point, this random stranger says that Mac applications are treated rather differently from those under Windows. In Windows programs sprinkle parts of themselves all about the file system and in the registry. Under Mac OS there is no registry, and applications are usually contained within their little bundled package. The icon for an application? It's actually a folder (or container) which holds all the 'stuff' that said app needs to run. In 99% of cases to install, you drag the icon from wherever you got it from to your applications folder. For uninstalling, you drag the icon from your Applications folder to the trash. Empty the trash and it's gone.</p><p></p><p>There are some exceptions to this (I'm looking at you Adobe and Microsoft) but for the most part your friend is wrong, and internet strangers posting on a Mac Forum are correct!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 382962, member: 9385"] Never go by what you 'hear from a friend' about the Mac OS X experience. Only go by what you get from forum posts like this one. Random strangers on the internet are always much more reliable when it comes to these situations. :robot: However, to the point, this random stranger says that Mac applications are treated rather differently from those under Windows. In Windows programs sprinkle parts of themselves all about the file system and in the registry. Under Mac OS there is no registry, and applications are usually contained within their little bundled package. The icon for an application? It's actually a folder (or container) which holds all the 'stuff' that said app needs to run. In 99% of cases to install, you drag the icon from wherever you got it from to your applications folder. For uninstalling, you drag the icon from your Applications folder to the trash. Empty the trash and it's gone. There are some exceptions to this (I'm looking at you Adobe and Microsoft) but for the most part your friend is wrong, and internet strangers posting on a Mac Forum are correct! [/QUOTE]
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