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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It absolutely can, I have several portable apps with self updating ability built in, when I use them it prompts me if I want to update or not, I personally appreciate that in certain cases.

I do dislike when they throw config files all over the place, so cleanup becomes very messy if I need to remove something.

Again tho, natively on windows there isn't a great way to do that anyway, the windows store sucks and not many will use the package managers via cmd either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be a bit rude here because you're not reading what I wrote.

I did not say that such apps cannot be updated, I said that they're not updated through a central update manager. So I don't give a flying fuck if you implemented your own custom app updater in your app because that's clearly and explicitly not what I'm talking about.

I also don't give a fuck about throwing config files all over the place, since a) the uninstall script takes care of that and b) this doesn't have to be specific to windows. Having an installer doesn't mean that configs must be thrown everywhere. Afaict apt-get isn't throwing files everywhere.

Again I don't really give a fuck about windows, but saying it hat it's not possible because people don't use the tool that makes it possible is fucking inane bullshit. Idk why you think the windows store "sucks" and I don't really give a fuck, it works fine as a user, even if I don't personally use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Lmao alright bud, there's really no reason to get so worked up about this.

I did read what you wrote, just gave alternate aspects of the conversation from my viewpoint, that's generally how discussions work.

I find it a bit funny you say the windows store is fine yet haven't/don't use it, not sure how you can talk about it's functionality from a point of ignorance so strongly.

I understand your viewpoint and even agreed, simply also stating I appreciate portable applications, some things they can implement that mitigate the need for a centralized update location, and some of the downsides I've come across while using them (that do play into your point, that a centralized way of managing them is cleaner if implented properly)