Why does installing a game/program sometimes take several hours, but uninstalling usually take no more than a few minutes?

Question

Why does installing a game/program sometimes take several hours, but uninstalling usually take no more than a few minutes?

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Answer 1

Writing data is like painting a mural. It takes effort, time and energy to make the information perfect.

Deleting something is equivalent to saying “ignore the mural, paint whatever you want over top of it”