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by anigbrowl 4130 days ago
You're dead right. A serious problem with the Bitcoin and Dogecoin clients (which I last used some time ago, but which changed relatively little over time) is taht they just installed themselves on the boot drive (if you're running windows) and had little in the way of configuration options. Cut to a few months later when I'm wondering why I'm running out of space on my SSD, only to realize that it's full of gigabytes of blockchain data that is a complete waste of space, with no convient way to put it somewhere else.

Could I manually get it installed and running on another large-volume and slower speed drive where this wouldn't be an issue, of course. But why do I want to bother even dealing with something so user-hostile? The average Joe or Jill who isn't a computer nerd is just going to see this thing eating his/her hard drive and get rid of it.