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Re:Lenovo May Be Avoiding 'Windows Tax' via Cheaper Laptops with Prein...
on Sunday April 27, 2025 @03:52PM (#43814609)
Yep, Windows tax is real.
In last september I bought Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 without any OS preinstalled for around $100 less than the exactly same model with Windows.
Re:Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
on Saturday April 06, 2024 @03:54PM (#39954960)
This is very handy! Especially for installers. Thanks, I'll write it to my list of handy tools.
Re:Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
on Saturday April 06, 2024 @06:41AM (#39951490)
I have to agree with others here. It's better to use Wix as a thin layer on top of Windows Installer but the documentation is very, very poor.
I spent a week of trial and error to create an installer just to find out that I had several installations of my app because of some misconfigured xml document from testing. A nightmare to uninstall to say the least.
I highly recommend to test your installers inside a VM or you'll screw up your system.
Also good luck if you want custom behaviour from the installer. The documentation for that is far worse than it is for the standard msi installer.