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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: 0s | 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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StableAlkyne ◴[31 Oct 25 14:49 UTC] No.45772574[source]▶
The most annoying instance of this is installers in Windows that just assume you want to go into `C:/Program Files`, which nowadays requires admin to be modified

This is very annoying on company machines where you may not have admin, since now there's red tape with your IT because the installer was poorly written.

Half the reason I use the WSL is because you at least get "root" on it, so permissions are never an issue

Edit: there may be something lost in translation. This post is in reference to software your IT already approves, which happens to only install to program files.

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1. criddell ◴[31 Oct 25 15:03 UTC] No.45772764[source]▶
Assuming C:/Program Files is a bug and you should notify the developers.

The installer should ask the user if they are installing for just themselves or for everybody on the machine.

If it's the former, the installation is typically somewhere under %HOMEPATH% (probably in %LOCALAPPDATA%), the latter will put it in %ProgramFiles%.