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So this guy is just bitching because he sudo installed something?
It’s not MS having to manage your folder permissions remotely?
I feel like he has a machine that someone set up for him, and he can't escalate permissions, because he's on a basic user account.
The normal way this works on a single user machine is:
But in that case he can't have locked himself out of a file, he can only be locked out of things Microsoft think you shouldn't muck with unless you know what you're doing