I guess I did not make myself clear. I'm talking about /home as a separate partition (and/or drive) - not just a separate directory. Duaine On 11/30/2012 03:13 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 14:54 -0600, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Wouldn't it behoove MS, to implement the /home concept (separating the OS from the users' data in different partitions) ? Once I got "into" Linux, I never understood why MS did not implement this. They did, and do.
Only they call it the user's "profile".
C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\....
There are even automatically set environment variables that point to the appropriate subdirectories. For example %USERPROFILE% points to the current user's profile and %TMP% points to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local \Temp, etc....
It is LINUX that recently, and finally, - with XDG - decided to come up with a standard most applications and environments follow. This verses the plastering of the home directory with 'secret' dot directories and files that nothing an nobody can manage.
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