Re:Man ... it's not that bad on OS X ... (Score 1)

I have a G4 with OS X, and I would have tended to agree with you - that is, until I started browsing around my ~/Library directory. (~/Library is where many applications, especially graphical ones, store user preferences, settings, and a bunch of other stuff. It's like the Windows registry, except not always in resident memory.)

Apparently, when you drag an application from the /Applications folder to the trash, your per-user preferences and other settings that reside in ~/Library/* don't get taken along, giving you a residual build up of all sorts of things. If you want to get the real scoop on just how easy and clean it is to get rid of programs on Mac OS X, check your ~/Library directory for stuff leftover from programs you thought you removed completely months ago. I'll bet you'll find a lot of stuff you dind't think existed on your HD anymore.