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The Applications folder itself is the equivalent. You can select an app and just press delete.

That doesn't delete all Application Support, Preferences, and Caches dirs associated with it.

and in many cases, Windows uninstallers don't do the equivalent either and leave stuff dangling about because there's no standard.

Lack of standard dirs doesn't really matter in this case because the same dev writes the installer and uninstaller. But I do get annoyed that Windows programs put stuff in random places when I want to look into them, like it's program files, program files (x86), documents, roaming... where tf is %appdata% even

Yeah, I know it's rhetorical, all the same, there are a bunch of ways to query environment variables:

* From a windows CLI type

SET

and all environment variables will be listed along with their values.

* From a windows CLI type

    SET APP

and all environment variables prefixed with "app" will be listed along with their values (eg: APPDATA ).

* With path location variables, open up file explorer and enter %appdata% in address bar and press enter / click "goto" arrow. File Explorer will expand the variable and show the expanded directory path and contents.

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