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Giving up control bit by bit (sub.wetshaving.social)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

People can say what they want about Windows, having stuff installed in a folder called Program Files with sub folders using the brand/program name is so much simpler than whatever the fuck is going on on Linux.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Until an app decides to install in the hidden AppData folder with the confusing sub-folder names, or even the root of the user folder, or god forbid in a folder in the root of the C drive

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Local, LocalLow, Roaming really are confusing names ngl, but %AppData% isn't really hidden.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's funny because it seems like it's all just familiarity with conventions on both platforms. I've used Linux for around 15 years and I'm completely lost trying to find anything on a Windows computer.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also the two Program Files folders that have existed since the switch to 64-bit systems.

    And third-party software installers that install stuff into their own secret places. Like Steam games.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    And don’t forget that syswow64 is where 32-bit os programs are, system32 is where the 64-bit programs are… and I guess system is still for 16-bit OS programs, if there still are any.

    (Edit: just checked, it seems to have only xsd documents for windows speech synthesis.)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't remember seeing something get installed in appdata, but having other files it depends on in there sure does happen though

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've seen Electron based apps do this sometimes. GitHub Desktop, for instance

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh right, it's the only one I've seen doing it. You still get the prompt to ask where you want to install it and it just needs to not be in Program Files or you need to give it administrator access so it can update itself...

    It's pretty ridiculous

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    For user specific files a lot of modern programs try to adhere to https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/. You should set those environmental variables and check there first.

    For system level.. it's definitely more complicated. I check /etc first and then then /usr dirs. If you're using your system package manager there is generally a way to query it for that information, but it's typically CLI based.

    Or just use our lord and savior NixOS and configure everything in a single directory

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