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The big problem for me (and maybe Piriform?) is that now I don't have any of their products on my systems because I can't get them through Ninite. I used to rel

by oofoe 13y ago

The big problem for me (and maybe Piriform?) is that now I don't have any of their products on my systems because I can't get them through Ninite. I used to religiously install their CCleaner, their defrag and system information tools. They're all very good, but I'm not going to walk through three separate installers for something that Ninite used to do in seconds. When I bring up a new system, I just go to Ninite, check some stuff and I'm done. For most machines, there is nothing else to do. I suppose this is sort of a cautionary tale... "Don't try to take your installer back from Ninite after they've showed everyone how it can be so much better."

JohnTHaller 13y ago
I'd wager they are more concerned with preserving their paid revenue stream than losing a few free users. Any company offering a freemium product has to strike that balance.
- oofoe 13y ago
  Well, I did say "maybe"... I guess what I was trying to get at is that before I would enthusiastically recommend their products to other people. Now I don't use them, so I never mention them to anyone. I don't seem to have a problem using separate installers for something like Blender, but the activation energy seems too high for installing "small" utilities[1]. That said, if I could get larger applications from Ninite, I'd pull from there in a heartbeat! [1] Utilities may not /actually/ be small.
  - JohnTHaller 13y ago
    If you don't mind using the portable versions of the larger apps like Blender, you can install the PortableApps.com Platform on your local hard drive and install and update all of those apps in a couple clicks. (Our portable apps work just fine locally, they just won't appear in your start menu by default, you have to add a shortcut manually or launch them using the PA.c Platform) Apps like Blender, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, GnuCash, Scribus, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.

by oofoe 13y ago

JohnTHaller 13y ago

I'd wager they are more concerned with preserving their paid revenue stream than losing a few free users. Any company offering a freemium product has to strike that balance.

oofoe 13y ago
Well, I did say "maybe"... I guess what I was trying to get at is that before I would enthusiastically recommend their products to other people. Now I don't use them, so I never mention them to anyone. I don't seem to have a problem using separate installers for something like Blender, but the activation energy seems too high for installing "small" utilities[1]. That said, if I could get larger applications from Ninite, I'd pull from there in a heartbeat! [1] Utilities may not /actually/ be small.
- JohnTHaller 13y ago
  If you don't mind using the portable versions of the larger apps like Blender, you can install the PortableApps.com Platform on your local hard drive and install and update all of those apps in a couple clicks. (Our portable apps work just fine locally, they just won't appear in your start menu by default, you have to add a shortcut manually or launch them using the PA.c Platform) Apps like Blender, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, GnuCash, Scribus, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.