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Technically, when installing a fitgirl rip, it is doing an extraction only, just with some extra UI elements and other features like installing dependencies.
why does it require admin rights to run, then? right at startup, and if you try to run it with a tool that fakes admin rights, it will crash (unlike other installers it can successfully make run)
They need admin privileges to write to directories such as
C:/Program Files, if I had to guess - I didn’t need privileges when installing Halo: Combatevolved Butworse on Linuxbut I always installed them on my other drive where it did not need such privileges. it works on linux because here everything runs as admin (in the wine world, it’s not admin in the linux world)
It’s not that Wine runs things as an administrator, Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;
with Windows, if you have a separate drive and *you* create a folder in it, even if you call it “Program Files”, it’s going to let you access it freely because it’s yours.
However, the existingProgram Filesfolder in your OS drive (C:by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by… I have no idea, actually, but it’s a system account, not yours.The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less tech literate when I was still daily-driving Windows.
It’s not that Wine runs things as an administrator
yes, it is that
Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;
I was always installing fitgirl games to my other drive, where I owned the entire thing. I know because I remember I set the ownership.
However, the existing
Program Filesfolder in your OS drive (C:by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by… I have no idea, actually, but it’s a system account, not yours.The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less
I have never installed fitgirl games there.
I’ll trust you on the Windows side of things, but you ought to explain how Wine is running things with admin privileges
Wine acts as if it has admin on the Windows side, but that’s unrelated to admin on the Linux host, very likely wine is just running with user privileges there.
I wish every game was like that AND the game saves were always in the directory.
I want to download, play, backup after I’m done without needing to manage all the save locations.
Explanation of the last panel?
