One of my pet peeves is Linux installers for proprietary software requiring root permissions.

Last time, Adobe got me into rant mode by requiring root not only to install the Adobe Air runtime, but to install any Adobe Air based application as well. This time it's Abbyy – makers of the famous Finereader OCR software.

Read the full thing at http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-05/17-please_dont_port_philosophy_with_code