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Comment by ttoinou | Hacker News Reader

More options, more mess. The user will always do something funky, then don't remember about it and then complain to the software publisher that it's not working correctly

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If software allows changing install location, it should work from everywhere. And there's no excuse for hardcoding Program Files anymore with multiple package managers on windows.

I feel your pain as a developer but as a user, sometimes I need the choice. Try to hide it so non-techies people can click Next Next Next but put it in advanced options somewhere.

  If software allows changing install location, it should work from everywhere

So, we're saying the same thing, what you said is the Contraposition of what I am saying, they are equivalent

Sorry, but I cannot agree.

>> don't remember about it

If you take your time to manually set any kind of new installation location, I assume you know what you are doing and will obviously remember.

>> complain to the software publisher

Changing the installation location should not break the program and if it does, its obviously a bug, or what are you trying to tell me?

You might not remember, and it might be in multiple years, and it might be someone else handling this

Not really, the common pattern is to use a well known default and then allow advanced users to modify their install location. Installation location has been a choice for well over 30 years now and a lot of the initial problems ironed out.

You do realize that most laptops ship with almost zero storage available on the C: drive, right? You have actually looked at the specs of real hardware in use in the real world, right?

We don't know what kind of software the OP is talking about though.

For me for my software there's specific folders to use, it's not Program Files windows classic subfolder

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