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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 44456" data-attributes="member: 5184">I consider a myself as a computer &quot;old-timer&quot;&nbsp; too (ages before Windows... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ), but comparing OS X to Win3.1?!...hmm... very strange comparison.The drag-and-drop feature to install/remove programs is surely quite old (it was on old Macs even BEFORE Windows), but unlike Microsoft, Apple always kept that way of installation because it IS the easiest and less messy way to do that. They never needed a registry, that's a Microsoft invention, in my opinion the worst thing they ever &quot;invented&quot;!But I agree with you that there are some programs that need a little more than just drag and drop, although I think that OpenOffice is a bad example, because it isn't really OS X native, it needs the X11 window manager to run.But, unlike Windows, the things some applications leave behind after removing don't affect the system itself...they just take space on the harddisk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 44456, member: 5184"] I consider a myself as a computer "old-timer" too (ages before Windows... :D ), but comparing OS X to Win3.1?!...hmm... very strange comparison. The drag-and-drop feature to install/remove programs is surely quite old (it was on old Macs even BEFORE Windows), but unlike Microsoft, Apple always kept that way of installation because it IS the easiest and less messy way to do that. They never needed a registry, that's a Microsoft invention, in my opinion the worst thing they ever "invented"! But I agree with you that there are some programs that need a little more than just drag and drop, although I think that OpenOffice is a bad example, because it isn't really OS X native, it needs the X11 window manager to run. But, unlike Windows, the things some applications leave behind after removing don't affect the system itself...they just take space on the harddisk. [/QUOTE]

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