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by cmovq 80 days ago
Software wants to be installed in C:\Program Files so that other software can’t modify their installation without admin permissions. Of course to do that your installer needs to be run as administrator which makes the whole thing rather silly.
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akdev1l 80 days ago
The fundamental issue is that installers shouldn’t exist

There’s no need to have an executable program just to essentially unzip some files to disk

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gruez 80 days ago
>There’s no need to have an executable program just to essentially unzip some files to disk

What if you need to install some registry keys? What about installing shared dependencies (redistributables)? What if you want granny to install your app and left to her own devices, it'll end up in some random folder in the downloads folder?

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tredre3 80 days ago
Software installed through the Windows Store seem immutable enough even though they live in the user's AppData.

At least the system prevented me from seeing or modifying the files the last time I tried. I did not try very hard, admittedly, but by contrast modifying something in C:\Program Files is just one UAC confirmation away.

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