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Originally Posted by Russic
Can I just chime in and say of all the things Mac do well, the app install process seems needlessly complicated. I realize it's not complicated once you do a couple, but it seems that the first time anybody is tasked with installing an application on a Mac they give the Mr. Spock single eyebrow raise.
I have an application that (among other things) lets you drag the .dmg file to it in your dock, it mounts the dmg, copies the app to your app folder and ejects the .dmg for you. It seems kind of odd I need an app to break that process down. Just seems very un-apple.
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I found the OS X system for managing app installs to be refreshingly simplistic. The application just needs to be opened up from it's archive (.dmg) and copied into the Application folder. Most .dmg files come with a shortcut built in to do just that.
Far easier (at least for me) to grasp then the complication of setup and uninstall wizards. There is no ridiculous "Registry" to get corrupted should something go wrong (damn registry cost me many hours of my life rebuilding Windows machines...)
Granted there is the odd application that still requires a bloody install wizard, but those are getting rarer thankfully.