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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: 0.203s | 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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RamRodification ◴[31 Oct 25 15:07 UTC] No.45772829[source]▶
> This is very annoying

It's a feature. You shouldn't be installing software on your work computer. Your IT department should be vetting it, deploying it, and keeping it up-to date for you.

Maybe you can tell the difference between report.pdf and report.exe, but too many people can't, so unfortunately we can't let everyone install anything.

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1. JohnFen ◴[31 Oct 25 16:07 UTC] No.45773668[source]▶
> You shouldn't be installing software on your work computer. Your IT department should be vetting it, deploying it, and keeping it up-to date for you.

If I actually had to depend on IT to do all that, it would take forever to get anything done.