So You Want to Compete with Steam

Re:So You Want to Compete with Steam by j_s on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:25PM (#16174690)

Chocolatey has some slightly-awkward-feeling freemium thing going on; there was a good discussion of Windows installer stuff recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15791781

https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari... (scoop) is an option focused on dev tools, http://boxstarter.org for repaving dev/vm machines.

Proprietary https://ninite.com for normally-installed stuff, not sure if the free edition updates things.

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Re:So You Want to Compete with Steam by kakarot on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:38AM (#16175186)

Free edition of Ninite only installs 32-bit applications, unfortunately.

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Re:So You Want to Compete with Steam by j_s on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:52AM (#16175235)

Thanks for the heads-up, it's been quite a while since I've needed it.

How has this limited your experience so far? I'm not really well-versed on even the expected impact this has on commonly used applications... is there any?

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Re:So You Want to Compete with Steam by kakarot on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:42AM (#16175402)

Well, no one wants a 32-bit web browser, and IrfanView 32-bit cannot handle large files well, I can't remember if the JRE has a 64-bit mode in the free edition but probably not.

In general you will also lose stability and/or performance with complex or intensive applications. For many suites like GIMP, Blender and LibreOffice this is a deal-breaker for me.

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