>devs: ah yes let's just casually install everything on C: and not offer options to change our install/data locations>microsoft: wouldn't it be a great idea if our MSI install system kept a complete copy of each application's installer in the Windows\Installer folder and we made it so that attempting to junction it to another drive breaks future installs/uninstalls? oh and btw you can't delete any of these if you want to be able to uninstall the application properly in futureliterally who designed this garbage?
this shit was a pain when I used windows and wanted things installed in the D drive.Now that I upgraded to linux I just have no clue where things are going.
>>108191672I fail to see how a junction wouldn't work.
>>108191672It literally allows you to create your partitions for shit man, most PC's are just single drive solutions so why bother with complicating things for the end user?
>>108191690>upgraded to linuxIt's crazy that your cult makes you shill loonix all the time. Vegans of the tech world. t. Vegan
>>108191702>seething this early Kek
>>108191702>i hate coke it makes my stomach hurt>yeah coke used to make my stomach hurt too now i drink pepsi and i no longer have this problem :)>fucking nigger pepsi cultist shill stop trying to convert coke drinkers >:(admit it you only posted this to tell us you're vegant. vegan
>>108191702>>108191752I'm not even shilling it retard, I'm complaining about it
>>108191672Shut up! You don't know how to use their computer!
>>108191690my knowledge is also limited but basically>~ is your home folder where you keep all your personal shit and >/ s where all your system files are kept
>>108191672someone who makes way more money than you do
>>108191848they go to /bin or /etc I think, then some will make a folder in your /.config, or in your home directory, flatpacks will go straight to your home and even some appimages will make folders everywhere. I wish I could just install something to a folder and have it all contained there. That's the one thing I miss about windows, even though it wasn't perfect there either as OP described.
>>108191805You said it was an upgrade.
>>108192215maybe on average it is, but do you think having no clue where files go is a compliment to the system? lmao
>>108191914Yeah I also loved portable installs on Windows, super comfy. Just leave it there and it works forever. They betrayed me a few times, either by doing something with AppData/Roaming behind my back, or even worse, putting shit in the registry. But when it's truly portable it's great. In terms of disk space the linux solution is peak though, at least in exchange for mashing everything together you can get an os that uses barely any space. And splitting out /home makes backups easy. You win some you lose some.
I like how macOS does it, everything goes in the Applications folder.
>>108191690I hate how some Unix-likes decide that you need a dozen partitions. What if you run out of disk space on /usr/? You cant use the rest of the disk, bubAll files in one partition always wins.
lol as if unix is better. theres zero standard about where anything should be. just wherever the fuck the dev decides. from systems apps all the way down to vim plugins.. zero standards at all.
>>108193403It’s very old fashioned, but made somewhat better by LVM, which can dynamically resize. I’m pretty sure LVM isn’t even the default configuration in the Ubuntu 25 installer.
>>108193403Son, way back in the day, it actually gave you a performance boost to reserve the system partition to the beginning of the disk, because that’s the outer edge of the disk platter and it can be read faster. With faster drives the importance lessened and with SSD there is zero need.
>>108193403There is a certain type of admin that will create ten different little partitions and then set up alerts so that they can try to recover when their 100M /var partition fills up. I guess it's job security.For me it's one btrfs with subvolumes
>>108191672literally skill issue for not moving on to portable apps
>>108193917>moving on to portable appsHuh? Windows doesn't encourage this at all.>pushed registry>pushed program files/UAC and appdata>pushed winrt with even more opaque directories locked to C:Not even any standard place to put them. Stuffing portable shit in some random place like C:\apps is a great idea but absolutely nothing about Windows encourages or even suggests this. If anything it's the past that it tries to push you away from.
>>108193965Holy fuck are you legitimately retarded?
>>108193965Skill issue indeed. You are supposed to have a drive/partition that survives and outlives your OS over the years, do you not. Just create a folder there and shove your portables apps. Mine is simply "E:\x86" and "E:\x86_CLI"
>>108194000This is pretty much exactly what I did. It was a mistake. I started running out of space on C: because so much shit wants to go there.>non-portable apps go there>some steam SDK stuff goes there without asking>AppData>WSL puts its shit there>HF downloader puts its shit thereetcEnded up merging the partition back in. That's when I discovered that not everything that looked portable actually was, so now that it was no longer in D:\Games shit started failing. Symlinks don't work for drive letters and subst doesn't persist. So now I have hacks in my registry DOSDevices. I even had windows update revert it once. Don't make my mistake.
>>108194022>Symlinks don't work for drive letters and subst doesn't persist.What about directory junctions?
>>108194022>not everything that looked portable actually wasAnd alot of shit that dont look portable actually are. Its trial and error but you should purposefully go for portable apps whenever you can. That is what I'm trying to tell you. For apps that arent portable, you can still install them in the same forder, upon OS change, just install what ever dependency is needed or reinstall the same app on top of the previous one, in the same folder. >SteamYou can choose to add another drive. >softwares that dont offer the choice of install pathsimply dont use them wtf. Its not 2004 anymore, all your major apps have multiple FOSS alternatives.>AppDataClean that shit up every once in a while.BTW running out of space is just a sign that you are poor. Stop being poor and buy proper storage (they used to be dirt cheap)
>>108194042>all your major apps have multiple FOSS alternativesThe lintards and their lies. >Gradually, I began to hate them.
>>108194000>>108193965>>108191672Scoop solves this.Portable apps are based.
>>108194052Its ok, come on, tell us where the big bad FOSS touched you.
>devs: ah yes let's make a centralized repository for all software>troonix: wouldn't it be a great idea if package managers kept a complete copy of each package's installer in the /etc/apt folderliterally who designed this garbage?
>>108196671troonix is no better
