Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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, so we'll
> assume they're all subdirectories of the same parent directory, even tho
> this isn't true in UNIX either."

My guess is that that won't change while the portable C stdlibs they use don't
get updated to more modern times to cope with extra features... when in doubt,
use the lowest common denominator.

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

I merrily don't.  Windows always felt klunky to me.

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