[GeekyBear]

Are you under the impression that Windows uninstallers don't leave files and registry settings behind?

[vbezhenar]

They certainly can clean everything after them. And I'm pretty sure that many of them do. When macOS user drags application folder to the Bin, application does not have a chance to clean after itself.

Just because some Windows uninstaller are bad doesn't mean that all of them are bad, or that uninstaller concept is bad.

Now I'd welcome for operating system to be built in a way to let user to delete everything related to the application. Maybe android or ios are built this way, but not macos.

[gopher_space]

> And I'm pretty sure that many of them do.

My AppData disagrees with you.

[fragmede]

apt purge software on Debian does a pretty good job of that, but it's got limited adoption.

[PearlRiver]

I use this

https://github.com/Klocman/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

The nice thing about Windows is that people have been writing software for it for decades. A very underestimated advantage.

[GeekyBear]

> The nice thing about Windows is that people have been writing software for it for decades. A very underestimated advantage.

AppZapper has been doing the same thing on Macs for decades.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppZapper

[SpaceNugget]

Sorry an advantage over what? What desktop operating system in common use _hasn't_ had decades of development of pet projects on obvious problems like system cleanup? Literally every operating system has these kinds of things

[jimmaswell]

The Macintosh came first, technically.