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[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 6 months ago

auto installing in the home directory is like walking into someone's house and putting your feet up on their table. so rude.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

I've seen some programs put their shit in ~/Documents which is even worse.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

This nonsense is why I've never set my XDG_HOME_DIRS to their actual values. A convenient button in file browsers isn't worth the intrusion.

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