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That would have involved me saving my files always in a separated folder, which wouldn't have been the case regardless of the OS, the way i used to save things back then (still a little now) today i would have one of the most poluted linux hard disks ever, and considering my track record with choice and usage of programs, i would probably have lots of programs that didn't keep things tidy themselves either
 
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
That would have involved me saving my files always in a separated folder, which wouldn't have been the case regardless of the OS, the way i used to save things back then (still a little now) today i would have one of the most poluted linux hard disks ever, and considering my track record with choice and usage of programs, i would probably have lots of programs that didn't keep things tidy themselves either
That is why you keep your /home folder in a separate partition!
 

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didn't another person here said that using partitions instead of keeping everything in a single thing was a Windows user thing?

Wouldn't have helped much, lots of things got saved right where they were, either because the program defaulted to saving int he install folder, or because i was creating the file in some unusual way.
 
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
... i was creating the file in some unusual way.
I like creating files by standing on my head, opening the hard drive up and scribing the platter by hand with a magnetised stylus.
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
didn't another person here said that using partitions instead of keeping everything in a single thing was a Windows user thing?

Wouldn't have helped much, lots of things got saved right where they were, either because the program defaulted to saving int he install folder, or because i was creating the file in some unusual way.
That would probably never have happend on a linux system. Why install a program in /etc/ when it choses correct path for you?

I mentioned partition as in.. making the partition for programs bigger on the n900. On a normal Linux system you don't have to bother about this. My Ubuntu machine uses 6Gb of a 10Gb root partition. The rest of the HDD goes to my /home/ partition.
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I don't think we can install all apps in the respiratory (assuming it will need more than 2gb of space)! So we will need that install here option in such case, don't we? Its alway better to have option than none. I've gone through first three pages only, so if its been mentioned/answered somewhere, sorry!
 
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Originally Posted by Joseph9560 View Post
I don't think we can install all apps in the respiratory (assuming it will need more than 2gb of space)! So we will need that install here option in such case, don't we? Its alway better to have option than none. I've gone through first three pages only, so if its been mentioned/answered somewhere, sorry!
If you need more space for programs.. why not just make that partition larger. I made it 10Gb once.. but didn't need it so have reverted back to the stock size.
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Originally Posted by Joseph9560 View Post
I don't think we can install all apps in the respiratory (assuming it will need more than 2gb of space)! So we will need that install here option in such case, don't we? Its alway better to have option than none. I've gone through first three pages only, so if its been mentioned/answered somewhere, sorry!
yes that would be better but with mobile devices one must make compromises and you can repartition the 32gb storage completely freely if 2gb isn't enough. imo easier than making sure that installing apps doesn't break anything etc.
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@ TiagoTiago,

I too prefer WIndows over Linux. Sure Linux has some cool abilities and some things are nicer, but my gosh its just so much more JOYFUL to use Windows.

That said Windows has some faults too.

So I've been spending some time over at OS Dev making my own. Check it out.
 
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Because you're using a distribution which is designed to have software installed using a package manager. If you want to stick things anywhere you want, use something like LFS or Slackware. The side effect is you end up with a ton of extra entries in your path, and gain absolutely nothing.
You are blatantly wrong - it is about entries in 'PATH'.

And one thing is difficult to underestimate - experience. You know much more about Linux and applications internals because it is not covered by package manager.

But I would like stop argument + and -.
 
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