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by Izkata 1853 days ago
> As a Windows switcher (in 2006) I always felt that the drag-and-drop model was really elegant, but it was unintuitive because, to your point, I had been exposed to the installation model for so long.

https://portableapps.com/ started around that time: builds of open source programs that ran out of a directory without any installation. They were meant for flash drives, but worked just from the desktop or wherever as well.