[Dalewyn]

>Just put your data in $env:APPDATA, damnit!

Sincerely: Hell no. Nearly everything (mostly Electron) nowadays wants to dump everything into %appdata% and it is infuriating.

I can never have enough space on C: anymore. I finally relented and bought and allocated an entire 2TB drive to just to C: on my newest machine because of "%appdata% All The Things" nonsense. C: otherwise doesn't need anymore than 100GB to house Windows and a few other system-related odds and ends.

%appdata% isn't even where All The Things(tm) should be going by default anyway, %appdata% is for storing user-specific program configuration data only. The Windows-provided default directory for program installations is C:\Program Files, and files resulting from program use should go in the program's own install directory or into an appropriate directory under the user directory (eg: My Documents) by default.

Windows allows full access to the file system and all the benefits that entails for a reason. Just ask me where I want the damn thing installed/saved rather than just shitting all over %appdata%.