05-29-2024, 08:25 PM
(05-29-2024, 07:01 PM)ThatOneWindowsFan Wrote: "this is a typically a Microsoft's user behavior which is not the right behavior..." What does that mean
It is indeed a bad habit rooted in Windows. Windows apps mostly behave as if the system they are installed on belongs to a single person. So when you uninstall, the app uninstaller thinks it is a good idea to wipe out any data (which could in sole case considered to be a good idea because such data is hidden in the registry). By contrast, Gimp, like all apps with Unix heritage, is designed to be installed/usable on multi-user systems(*), so the person who uninstalls may not be the only one who uses it, and may not even have access rights to the data of other users. So when you uninstall Gimp the user data is kept.
(*) Windows systems can be serially multi-user, our family PC was set up that way in the nineties/noughties.