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> Yeah. I know. But I don't want to SUDO this or SUDO that.

This is an exceptionally good point. I've NEVER, in my life, tried to either install something, update something or, even literally open a random localhost port from a development test suite in VS Code without having to click through a UAC authorization dialog sequence on Windows.

/s

(I know that HN encourages the assumption of good faith, but when a poster just straight up lies through their teeth about the on-the-ground reality of user authorization, it's really hard not to push the (obviously correct, hanlon's razor be damned) corporate shill angle. (sorry, dang))



I don't think it's about admin powers, but about having to type commands to fix things. That's not the same as just clicking 'allow' in UAC.




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