alt Hacker Newsi actually vividly remember when they started introducing that flow... the first time i came across it was a total knee-jerk negative reaction. unrelated to that, i switched to windows a few years later (my old imac wasnt good enough to play world of warcraft)... but when i came back to it 10+ years later, it still felt strange.
i mean its neat from a minimalism perspective, but the decision to not ship with a regular installation UI in OG macOS X came with the tradeoff of not cleanly _uninstalling_ software either. config files etc were always left over.
but i guess - as Apple keeps locking down good old macOS X in favour of forcing software to go through the Apple Store this is going away as a sideeffect?
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> but the decision to not ship with a regular installation UI in OG macOS X came with the tradeoff of not cleanly _uninstalling_ software either. config files etc were always left over.
But they have regular installers, they are called .pkg and look like a wizard. Programs distributed as a single .app don’t really need them though.
They haven't made any more moves in that direction since the store appeared. If anything, it's use seems to have declined since then. For awhile I would download a few apps from there, but when I did a fresh install this year I didn't even think about it and got nothing from there.
> came with the tradeoff of not cleanly _uninstalling_ software either. config files etc were always left over.
That's no different than windows or linux. The uninstallers leave configuration bits all over the place be it in the registry or config folders.