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What are the advantages of portable apps? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[โ€“] 7 points 8 months ago

Installation restriction at work. You may have rights to execute .exe but not to install app.

I also have a dozen of utility app I daily use (image viewer, PDF viewer, process killer, inkscape, gimp, etc...). I just have to zip my progs folder to backup and I won't need to reinstall everything if my computer die (which happened last month BTW).

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