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I_fucking_hate_them_now (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 181 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Microsoft intentionally made programs install to C:\Program Files on Windows 95+ to force programmers to deal with spaces in filenames.

Someone make one of those "statements made by the utterly deranged" memes about it, please and thank you.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    what is even more funny about this is that the name of that directory used to be locale-dependent, so in sweden it was just called "Program", completely nullifying that idea.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    C:\Program Files

    C:\Program Files (x86)

    C:\ProgramData

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

    It's only localised in the file explorer. The actual folder name is always Program Files.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Only since vista, it used to be localized.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    what about placeholders/variables like %localappdata%, %windir%, %programfiles%?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I can only assume these always existed, otherwise it would have been a nightmare for everyone.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.

    Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.

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