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

47 points breezk0 | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Title.

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. breezk0 ◴[31 Oct 25 15:14 UTC] No.45772950[source]▶
Sorry, but I cannot agree.

>> don't remember about it

If you take your time to manually set any kind of new installation location, I assume you know what you are doing and will obviously remember.

>> complain to the software publisher

Changing the installation location should not break the program and if it does, its obviously a bug, or what are you trying to tell me?

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2. ttoinou ◴[31 Oct 25 18:16 UTC] No.45774999[source]▶
You might not remember, and it might be in multiple years, and it might be someone else handling this