I’ve mainly used OSX/MacOS tho right out my life, but have used Windows for work. From my understanding, installing an app on Windows scatters files throughout the OS and makes it sometimes difficult to fully uninstall an app. Often times there are files that are leftover.
In macOS it’s super easy because with a lot of apps, the files are bundled within the app itself making it easier to remove.
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Developers not writing proper cleanup for their software. Anecdotally, windows software tends to shit out config / registry edits / other files all over the place at a much higher rate than Linux; can’t speak for OSX because I barely use it, but OSs that use FHS are usually easier to manually clean.
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