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by voussoir 1856 days ago
I avoid installers and prefer portable releases 100% of the time. Sometimes, you can extract an installer like a zip and it still works. Other times, I suffer through the install process once and then zip up the resulting folder to get my own portable for next time. I think it's crazy how even the simplest of programs today want to run installers.

I wrote more about it here: https://voussoir.net/writing/master_of_my_domain