Darvond: You know what really shaves my gourds? Bad installer practices.

GOG is guilty of no less than 3 I can think of, but perhaps others exist:

1) Assuming in good faith, that the main temporary directory is the correct one.
2) Failing to do a sanity check for space requirements, or other sanity checks such as previous installs.
3) Including what most would consider to be strippable options such as Estonian localizations when one isn't in Estonia.
4) Very dated compression/decompression use. I don't know how GOG operates, but I'm pretty sure handing the user a TAR.GZ file would be more efficient than the current installers for any system.
5) Assuming permanence over portability.
6) Anything that has to do with or relies upon the Windows Registry.
7) Finally, I'd like to harp upon MojoInstaller, seeing as it still relies on now sunset components of the Linux system.

So, any bad practices you can think of? Solutions or alternates to suggest? I've a friend who is currently unable to install Cyberpunk due to the shall we say, creative practices that the installer packaging entails, seeing as 135+135=270, and their drive only has 104. (I presume they were installing somewhere else.)

Magmarock: Your friend sounds like someone who doesn't know how to computer, and blames the software rather than taking the time to learn why things are the way they are.

Darvond: What part of the premise of the thread idly drifted past you? The part where in no uncertain terms the issue of GOG using a temporary directory on the primary drive of choice, no matter how much space is already in use?

Also, I know Windows and the habit of dropping increasingly bloated updates. One of the reasons I left.

Magmarock: You could just turn the updates off.

Darvond: No you can't, and anyone who says otherwise is completely mad. You can defer the updates, which isn't good enough.

Hikage_XjS: I must be completely bonkers then because WUSHOWHIDE lets me do exactly that. :)

Darvond: No you can't, and anyone who says otherwise is completely mad. You can defer the updates, which isn't good enough.

Or you can take a hacksaw blade to the registry, and do it that way, but at that point, why are you even still bothering with Windows when you're having to actively fight it?

Magmarock: There's a tool called Windows update blocker, it's safe and it works. If you would like a .reg file to do it instead I could write one up for you.

Darvond: I don't exactly know where it wasn't made clear enough, but I did mention that I no longer used Windows. So a registry file would be amusing but the simple reality is, I'd sooner go back to typewriters than Windows again, and thankfully I have the choice and freedom not to.

Magmarock: If you can get your favorite games working on Linux more power to you. But for me I still gotta use Windows for all of my work and gaming needs.

Darvond: I mean I've heard a rumor that some ex-Microsoft employee is putting a massive amount of funds and effort into the system via his company, but it might just be a rumor.

Magmarock: Money won't solve it. You can't make closed source software for Linux due it's ever changing environment. Open source doesn't have this problem because it's code can be ported and modded very quickly as to keep up with it.

Darvond: So you're not looking at Proton and thinking, "Damn, that's impressive."

Darvond: Well, that may be so, but the code used in Proton is then backported into Wine, which has massively upgraded it.