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Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?

47 points breezk0 | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

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I think it is very rude to just install to any "default" directory and not asks the user where he wants it to be installed.

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ttoinou ◴[31 Oct 25 14:40 UTC] No.45772459[source]▶
More options, more mess. The user will always do something funky, then don't remember about it and then complain to the software publisher that it's not working correctly
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1. politelemon ◴[31 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45772740[source]▶
Not really, the common pattern is to use a well known default and then allow advanced users to modify their install location. Installation location has been a choice for well over 30 years now and a lot of the initial problems ironed out.