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You made PortableApps ? I used it like seven years ago, and it was great - it helped me and a few others to learn programming on our school computers which, as you might guess, didn't have a lot of tools dedicated to that purpose.

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Glad you liked it. We're still going strong. A larger percentage of our users these days now use it either locally or on a synced cloud folder. Our platform installer even detects and offers to install to Dropbox, Box, One Drive and Google Drive.

That's awesome, I've got a few things in my dropbox like that... makes it a lot easier even for those bits that I add to my windows path.

For Linux and OSX, it would be cool to see similar things.. though I've seen some interesting things using Dropbox that may yeild a portable *nix app solution one day.

You can run them on Linux via Wine and on OS X via Crossover, Wineskin, etc. We check for running via Wine in our tools and work around a few bugs where we can.

Same here, love portable apps. Used it for the same reason at my old job. Was able to teach myself enough to get a system admin gig.

Glad it helped you out. I'm still amazed at the number of folks the apps and utilities helped over the years. And a number of our devs use the experience they gain towards getting a spot at university or a job as well.

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