Hacker News Reader

I don't think this is fair. Linux and Mac used to operate in generally the same fashion. Only recently have they started sandboxing stuff.

Windows doesn't have the same privileges because they are forced to maintain backwards compatibility.

It's just as bad there with everyone randomly shoving dot-files in my home directory instead of using ~/.config, ~/.local, ~/.cache, and friends.

Just to name a few in my home dir ... aws, cargo, dotnet, yarn, vscode...

All of these narcissistic tools are pretty annoying.

40% of those tools are majority controlled by Microsoft...