WinUAE exposing how crappy Windows is

[warpdesign]

@Amiduffer: how do you remove (completely I mean) an MUI program that will have installed some MCC classes ?

No, don't tell me you'll find some undeleted items in MUI:libs after having deleted the program's directory...

Seeing the mess MUI became, the settings that are saved sometimes in env: sometimes in envarc:, with no default time for settings: sometimes it's binary, sometimes it's text,... I don't think you can point the Windows registry.

There are nice things about the Amiga, and bad things about Windows. But the registry surely isn't that bad. Even Linux uses some kind of DataBase for APT for example... The implementation may no be that good, but the registry idea isn't a bad idea.

[warpdesign]

Does it really make sense that all your Apps should be so tied into the OS that if you have to reinstall Windows you have to reinstall and reset up every single application on your computer?

Don't you think apps are tied on the Amiga as well ?

Most MUI apps will require libs/mcc to be copied into mui:libs. Reinstalling your OS means reinstalling *every single MCC/libs* required by your app. And there's no way to list which mcc is used by which app. Oh, and I'm not even talking about version problems (for example mcc making crash some apps,...) In addition to that, if your app added some stuff into startup-sequence/user-startup, it also means readding assign, path,...

Amiga's way of working with apps/dirs certainly isn't better. Sure, there are things that suck on Windows. But what's important:
 - what sucks in Windows ?
 - Or what can be improved in AmigaOS ?

I would say the second... Pointing at Windows flaws won't improve AmigaOS...