Darren New wrote:
> Somehow, I always find it amusing how many FOSS programs assume Windows 
> is basically how it was in Win98 and completely fail to do the right thing.

...which does, on the other hand, have the side-effect of making it 
compatible with Win98. ;-)

> which in other words means "we haven't bothered to find the API call 
> that tells you where a particular user's home directory is in Windows, 

Or, more likely, "we just took our C sources and recompiled them on top 
of a POSIX emulator, so we can't do anything that POSIX doesn't support 
/ the emulator doesn't implement".

> And some people wonder why FOSS feels klunky on Windows.

Heh, well, the *really* fun thing is when you have to install GTK+ 
before the program will run... We all know what happens then. ;-)

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