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?

  • Oberyn@lemmy.world
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    7 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 ‼️