Firejail on Linux and Sandboxie on Windows means I can let programs install whenever they want, and I always know it'll be inside some other top-level directory I specify. Probably better to not let programs spray all over your filesystem anyway.
Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
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Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#32Weird windows centric view. There shouldn't even be a question where to put things much less a "wherever you want". Instead you want a sane, sensible standard.
mkdir derp
gmake install DESTDIR=$PWD/derp
Distribution maintainers have to patch this :(Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#33As long as the uninstaller can find it
Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#34Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#35Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#36Weird windows centric view. There shouldn't even be a question where to put things much less a "wherever you want". Instead you want a sane, sensible standard.
Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#37As long as the uninstaller can find it
Same here. I don't care where the application goes; I care where the data goes. One of my initial annoyances when I started using PlatformIO was that it assumes a default workspace directory and as a new user, it took me forever to figure out where it was putting my files. I have a standard directory structure that I use and this was really messing me up.
I used a Win10 debloater last year about 2 weeks after install. It deleted Minecraft, which is apparently a UWP too, and it deleted my world, because UWPs apparently store userdata in program directory.
Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#38More 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
Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#39Re: Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
#40Or she.