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This has always been part of my portable apps must haves. If windows has one thing going for it above Linux it's portable, no install applications. That and Aut

• justsomehnguy 4y ago
  You can have a 'portable' app on any *nix distro with a static compilation. But as a person who had for an almost a decade a bunch of apps neatly stored in a folder which just worked...
  • account-5 4y ago
    I'm aware its possible but it's way easier on Windows. Download and run. With the likes of the portableapps platform and similar you're always up-to-date as well, something you wouldn't get with static compilation without a lot of hassle.
• marcodiego 4y ago
  I still envy windows users for the easiness of downloading a single and being able to install a news software with a few clicks. When I started using linux, my mind was blown away by how much better apt-get seemed. This continued until packages stopped being updated or when what I needed to install simply wasn't in my repos. This led to inclusion of "shady" repositories or compiling software myself which sometimes required compilation of dependencies which sometimes broke the system or even apt-get itself. In a few months installing new software and maintaining the system was more working the installing an updated version of my distro. Today I try to use LTS distros and use flatpaks/snaps/AppImages as much as I can. I keep my system stable and my software up to date without one compromising another. My envy for how easier it is to install software on windows is much smaller today.