I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • @Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Why do programs install somewhere instead of asking me where to?

    EDIT: Thank you all, well explained.

    • Julian
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      18 months ago

      Someone already gave an answer, but the reason it’s done that way is because on Linux, generally programs don’t install themselves - a package manager installs them. Windows (outside of the windows store) just trusts programs to install themselves, and include their own uninstaller.