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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: 0.231s | 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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bigbuppo ◴[31 Oct 25 15:12 UTC] No.45772902[source]▶
You do realize that most laptops ship with almost zero storage available on the C: drive, right? You have actually looked at the specs of real hardware in use in the real world, right?
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1. ttoinou ◴[31 Oct 25 18:15 UTC] No.45774984[source]▶
We don't know what kind of software the OP is talking about though.

For me for my software there's specific folders to use, it's not Program Files windows classic subfolder