> You mean because that's obviously way more sane than spewing the installation of every piece of software all over the system. > There's a reason it's basical

> You mean because that's obviously way more sane than spewing the installation of every piece of software all over the system. > There's a reason it's basically only Unix that works like that. I think you're underestimating how common it is for software on both Windows and macOS (the former more than the latter) to spew its bits all over the system. In the case of Windows especially, this includes things like the Registry and events sent to Event Viewer.