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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       Gary Greene <rei () tabris ! net>
Date:       2002-12-14 8:10:36
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On Friday 13 December 2002 07:43 pm, Manuel Amador wrote:
> > 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.

Not true. Windows 2000 and XP (Home and Pro) have per user home directories. 
Windows 9x and ME didn't, but as far as M$ is concerned they're ancient 
history. These are stored in %ROOTDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%. 
We really need to compare the NT series (NT/2k/XP) to Linux since they're the 
only versions of Windows that have multiuser as a feature.

> > --
> > Regards,
> > andrew
> >
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