Re:Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:43AM
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> just keep a copy of Program Files and most applications will still work fine
In some mythical parallel dimension where the Windows system directory, user profile directories and the registry don't exist, sure.
Re:Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:04AM
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Applications rarely copy dlls to the system directory these days, as that led to horrifying DLL hell just like Linux has, where conflicts abound unless some central authority carefully manages everything. I routinely run about a hundred different applications portably from a thumb drive. Try that shit with Linux (it only works with AppImage!).
User profile and registry are for settings. You can easily keep backups of those as well, but it isn't really necessary unless you have highly tweaked configurations or something.
Have you not touched Windows since 1995?
Oh, if only there were more than a handful of applications on Linux distributed as AppImage, and any support given to them at all by file browsers, life would be so much simpler. Linux community hates desktop so much they completely ignored an embedded ELF icon standard and have consistently poo-pooed every non-repo way of dealing with applications ever.
> You want a constantly updated cache of the programs you use in case of the apocalypse
Why would I want that? So I could discover that something I rely on was broken by a recent update only after I have no ability to do anything about it? Well, lets assume so. On Windows this is relatively simple, just keep a copy of Program Files and most applications will still work fine. It's not ideal, but I'll take it over package managers not even being able to install an application to a different disk.