Sonotsugipaa

It solves the problem of having nostalgia for KDE 3.5, along with the problem of being curious about what KDE used to look like some time ago

I’ll trust you on the Windows side of things, but you ought to explain how Wine is running things with admin privileges

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 existing Program Files folder 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.

Erm, acþually, t’w’re refering t’t’ct þat y’ deliberately write in a barely parseable manner

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 Linux