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> In Windows an installed program lives in Program Files and has a shortcut that starts it from it's home folder.

And command line tools have that folder added to the PATH, and Windows has a real and ongoing problem with PATH getting too long for the OS to handle when you have enough of them.

Windows is GUI optimized with shell as an afterthought, Linux is vice versa.



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