> while in reality they live like every application would be putting their stuff into C:\Windows, like Windows used to do in the old day pre-XP. I hate that yo

> while in reality they live like every application would be putting their stuff into C:\Windows, like Windows used to do in the old day pre-XP. I hate that you are correct, at least to some extent. In that analogy, the / directory is really C:/Windows, with everything attached under that. What have we done. Perhaps Mac OS got at least one thing right: /Applications and /Users at the top level.