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• @otacon239@lemmy.world 2026-09-30 04:47

  I wouldn’t have so much of a problem with all of this if: A: It was information provided clearly to the user, including after install and B: There was a publicly and clearly standardized process for how the user should be expected to interact with those files. Sometimes games will hide screenshots and export data there where others will lose their shit if everything isn’t very carefully handled. Mod folders, user music, save files, screenshots, controller configs… These are things that are now in tens of thousands of games and everyone can just sort of choose whatever they’re in the mood for and no one bats an eye. It would just be nice if you did t have to go investigating on PCGamingWiki just to check for basic info.

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• @CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-30 05:22

  some programs, including some Microsoft developed ones, will install into %appdata% to bypass the need to have local admin rights to install for all users. On one hand it’s handy. On the other it makes blocking users from installing shit more of a pain Well on windows you can install shit anywhere, I don’t know if there is something similar to linux’s noexec (but that is handled at mount point level). In the old days I used to have a usb drive with “portable” versions of the applications that I wanted to use at school. (We weren’t obviously allowed to install anything, but you could run anything) Anyways, security is hard, windows is confusing 👍

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