> 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 thin

> 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.