What's the point of putting OS on a small partition and your programs on another?

[Itchrelief]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: Nothinman

A lot of games nowadays also store a lot of data in your user folders, which default to your OS drive anyway.

Which is pretty dumb on their part, if that's to be the default it should be at the very least be configurable.

Why is it dumb? It is storing your data in your user folder so the data is somewhat secure as only your or an administrator can access the data. I think it is a good idea because if I was back in college with a shit head room mate, I'd be deleting his game data and all kinds of things.

That's not something non-shithead roommates do, I would think.