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Windows is the same now.

Due to "new and better" approach, each program puts its data in 5 different folders for "multi user" reasons.

What is infuriating that all those folders are hidden and all of them are on C: drive. So your C: drive gets clogged.

This makes it impossible to track how much space each program uses.

(On a side note its been years since floppy drives were the A: drive... and yet we are still stuck with the primary disk being called C:)

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On a similar note, I wondered if my week Mac still called the main volume “Macintosh HD”. Yup. When is the last time Apple marketed their computers as “Macintosh”? And when’s the last time they sold one with a “hard drive”?

> (On a side note its been yeara since floppy drives were the A: drive... and yet we are still stuck with the primary disc being called C:)

The logic behind that is pretty obvious isn't it?

Unless you mean retrocompatibility, no it's not that obvious to me.

I think it's clearly back compatability.

yes. obviously, if your whole entire being and everything known about your os is that the main drive where the os is installed is c:\, then suddenly changing that to a:\ because floppy drives fell out of fashion would being nothing short of absolute chaos. you'd be amazed at the number of times c:\ is hard coded into things. It would be like swapping the brake and accelerator pedals. It would be like switching the sky to green and grass to blue. It would be total anarchy. Okay, maybe it wouldn't be that bad, but it wouldn't be good. At least for the dolt that called their system drive a:\

If you plug a USB floppy drive in, and put a diskette in it, it's still A:.

What is infuriating is that programmers that make 6 figures not knowing the diff between AppData\Local and \Roaming.

I'm the ass that gets the support call. I'm getting accused of delivering shit. I'm the guy that needs to write workaround scripts.

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