I recently learned that you can make many apps such as browsers portable on a USB drive and I was wondering, aside from being able to take it on the go, what other advantages does portable apps have? I know it won’t take up much storage. Is there any privacy benefits?

  • mub@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    I have a utils die full of portable apps. They are just things I use occasionally that I don’t want to actually install, like a cd writer, sysinternals, benchmarking apps, mkv tools, and more.

  • Oberyn@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Not having to set everything up again wen inevitably hafta reinstall Windows from 0 again

    … that is if portable app’s actually portable , if your “”“portable”“” app’s just the .exe but everything still stored in «USER FOLDER»/AppData/.\* I’m stealing something from your house ‼️

  • borokov@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Installation restriction at work. You may have rights to execute .exe but not to install app.

    I also have a dozen of utility app I daily use (image viewer, PDF viewer, process killer, inkscape, gimp, etc…). I just have to zip my progs folder to backup and I won’t need to reinstall everything if my computer die (which happened last month BTW).