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auto installing in the home directory is like walking into someone's house and putting your feet up on their table. so rude.
I've seen some programs put their shit in
~/Documentswhich is even worse.Windows vibes
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.