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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 14 points 3 weeks ago
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 3 weeks 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.