On Windows, you have your home directory: \Documents and Settings\%username%. Incidentally, gaim points to this directory as ‘Home’. Then, you have My Documents where you put your “documents”, as well as Desktop, where you have the contents of your Desktop. Application Data, similar to the various hidden .%program name% folders in Linux, hold all of the program configuration and other ‘stuff’.

I’m sure you can probably set up Windows to point to a different home directory path; I may try to do this sometime in the future.

I actually prefer the structure (or lack of one) with Linux; you get your home directory and with GNOME, one folder called ‘Desktop’ for your desktop. Everything else, you create yourself. There aren’t any system-wide symlinks to ‘My Documents’ or anything like that. If you want something, you just type it in: ~/folder_name. I suppose this is just personal preference; I like using the command line interface a lot, and using shortcut keys. One of the things I don’t like about OS X is that I haven’t found a way to get the equivalent of the ‘Run’ command, nor are most programs launchable from the Terminal.

I didn’t know you had a blog until I was looking through the comments on MIT’s blogs.

BTW, I am defered too, and I have not had enough courage to send in any supplementary material yet. Good luck with the rest of the schools, I know you will get in somewhere you want to be at.

Leo