Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

Post by Ylpertnodi » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

didgetmaster wrote: post #147

ncr100 wrote: post #125

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[ Thank you for "PartitionMagic" - crucially important for home / personal computer users, at least in my own history. ] And, I wonder if a (corporate) development organization's overall cultural friction around critical / negative feedback -- in this case integration issues in the technical sense of pulling together modules built by subteams to compose a final product -- could be worth investigating when challenging…

Thank you and to all the others who remember and liked PartitonMagic. It makes an old programmer feel good to know that something he worked on 30 years ago made a difference. BTW: I am currently working on a hobby project called Didgets. It is an object store that does a lot of cool file system stuff and relational table manipulation and analysis. It is available for free download at http://www.didgets.com The instal…

Post by rsynnott » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

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I remember a time when UIs looked consistent, instead of custom-branded, and I still think the "completely reasonable and normal" state is the former, not the latter.

Windows apps that skinned everything have existed since at least Windows 95. But they were an exception rather than a rule.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

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> Mac apps often do various things on your computer. Just because you dragged it to Bin, doesn't mean there are no leftovers on your computer. I'd prefer proper uninstaller any day. I think I know what you're talking about. There are likely files inside the ~/Library/Application Support/ or ~/Library/Caches/ folders for example. What is the proper, Apple way to make sure these get deleted when we delete apps? Because…

It wouldn't be hard to display "remove configuration and cache files?" modal during uninstall/trashing process. But it would be hard to go against own simplicity of platform usage idea - that's the problem. KDE's Discover after you uninstall a flatpak application shows small infobar (still really easy to miss) saying " appname is not installed but it still has data present. " with " Delete settings and user data " bu…

Post by noAnswer » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

didgetmaster wrote: post #183

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Same applies to Windows or UNIX based packages, other than systems like iDevices, Android or UWP, where applications are sandboxed. However people around here hate sandboxing on their OSes.

This problem has been around for decades. An application installer doesn't just copy some files to a few directories. It may put them in hundreds of different places. In addition, it adds entries to the registry or other system files. Even the best uninstallers or cleaners miss something when deleting the app. This is one of the many issues my side project is designed to address. Imagine if installing every applicati…