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ratww on May 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

As others mentioned, most now sit alongside the executables.

To give some historical perspective of why, check out this Wikipedia article on "DLL hell", more specifically the "DLL stomping" section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell

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