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It’s really not. The stuff in ~/Library is caches + preferences + any other data. Deleting an app on macOS, even back in the day, did not delete the preference
by klodolph 4y ago
It’s really not.
The stuff in ~/Library is caches + preferences + any other data. Deleting an app on macOS, even back in the day, did not delete the preferences.
The problems with Windows is that you needed an installer in the first place, and then an uninstaller, and then you couldn’t move an application to a different location. On a Mac, you can still just drag the application to the /Applications folder, or somewhere else, and then delete it later. The user data remains.
- jb1991 4y agoLots of apps can litter junk all through macOS that goes well beyond the ~/Library folder. To totally rid yourself of everything, just manually search for the app name using FindAnyFile [0] and trash them. [0] https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/ https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
- joshspankit 4y agoI mean, it almost is. Though, it depends on the software of course. I’ve seen some bad-faith macOS installs that easily compete with bad-faith Windows installs.