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Subject: Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From: Manuel Amador <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date: 2002-12-13 23:56:17
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> Am I missing something here? Windows *does* default to "c:\documents and
> settings\bob\My documents" for saving documents. The "My Documents" folder on
> the desktop is just a live 'link' to an individual users Documents folder
> which is buried in the file hierarchy unless it is just a single user machine
> or is set for all users to share the same doc folder.
>
> In other words it is much the same as Linux with a 'Documents' Link on the
> desktop.
This is only because Windows doesn't have per-user home directories (at
most there is this thing called Profiles, buried deep in C:\Windows, an
only modernly in C:\Documents and settings), and hence needs this
abstraction to make it appear so.
>
> --
> Regards,
> andrew
>
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