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The unix culture comes from a shared multi-user perspective, whereas the windows point of view tends to be towards a single user desktop. In a shared environme
by GartzenDeHaes 6y ago
The unix culture comes from a shared multi-user perspective, whereas the windows point of view tends to be towards a single user desktop. In a shared environment, it's not acceptable for applications to change shared system components. Although this is maybe less important today, the culture still persists.
- dataflow 6y ago> In a shared environment, it's not acceptable for applications to change shared system components. That era is long gone on Windows (literally since XP I think). In fact I've had to do this far more on Linux than on Windows in recent memory... the latest instance ironically being the glibc CLOCK_REALTIME mess on WSL. Right now programs bundle whatever they need, and these go into the app directory (like \Program Files). e.g., I have maybe ~20 sqlite3 DLLs on my system besides the system ones. Your larger point about the culture might still be correct though, I don't know.
- oblio 6y agoYou're misreading his comment. He's saying Windows is share nothing.
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