I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants.

These should have been mobile friendly webpages.

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    And not every program needs an installer.

    Just because I downloaded a program to write ISOs to a USB drive, does not mean it needs to be installed on the system. Unless it’s something like MS Office, why does it need to be installed? Just give me a zip file, I will extract it and delete it when I don’t need it anymore.

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          You can tell he’s not a FreeBSD user because he doesn’t have to dive in and alter the source to make it compatible.

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        Yeah, who needs an installer when you can just ./configure, then ./make and ./make install, just stopping to fetch and build missing dependencies occasionally, upgrade some others, then retry.

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          Or just download a standalone binary. Or don’t download anything because most things are in your package manager.

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        Windows doesn’t require you to install most things though. Developers just choose to do so unnecessarily sometimes.

        Why hate windows for this of all things? Isn’t it normal to “install” packages in Linux as well?

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          Via your package manager. Not by downloading some random nonsense a random developer decides should write who knows what their system files

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      If you’re on Windows and looking for a portable ISO burner, Rufus works great and is a 1.4mb portable .exe for that. It works great for when I overwrite Windows with Linux.

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        my directory of ‘portable’ programs has about sixty different things in it. some of which are used daily and are either in the path or are windows’ default for something.