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Windows Portable version

Open Korb opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

I propose to consider the possibility of publishing in Releases a portable version of the Thorium Reader for Windows, in addition to Thorium.Setup.x.x.x.exe.

Korb avatar Oct 06 '24 07:10 Korb

hello, what would be the advantages for the end user? are there problems with the existing installer that this would solve? (currently, the installer offers per-user and global setup options)

danielweck avatar Oct 06 '24 07:10 danielweck

The advantages are the same as those of a portable application over an installed one. When an application does not need to install drivers, services, change the Windows File Manager context menu, add its modules to other applications, I prefer to use portable versions of applications. This reduces the number of changes in the registry, leaves less garbage in system folders after deleting the application, and speeds up the process of reinstalling the OS (installation and configuration of applications is reduced to specifying the old folder for storing start menu shortcuts and writing mappings of applications to file extensions).

Korb avatar Oct 07 '24 08:10 Korb

https://www.electron.build/nsis#portable

panaC avatar Oct 07 '24 09:10 panaC