#portableApps

red_rooster :coolified:red_rooster@sueden.social
2025-11-17

@PortableApps @libreoffice
#TIL
If the base path of the #portableapps directory has more than 44 Characters #libreoffice portable crashes right when starting. (protableapp suite 30.1.2, libre office portable 25.2.3.2 Win 11)

If you ask yourself why somebody uses such long paths .... Because I can!

Dawn Tåke 🌙 :sparkletrans:Tourma@tech.lgbt
2025-11-14

Hey all.

I'm shifting from using indivitual #PortableApps to using the #PortableApp app. I'd like to move #Calibre to that way, but the Import/Export doesn't work with portable apps. Is there a way to get the PA app to see the old install?

Thanks

#TechHelp #AskFedi #TourmaLinux

2025-10-31

Love #PortableApps on USB drives, but hate having to download all the apps separately.

So I made a predownloaded single file version here:

sourceforge.net/projects/porta

Contains #firefox #LibreOffice #crystaldiskmark and more

Simply unzip to a usb drive, and you're done.

Juergen M. Brucknerjuergen@bruckner.email
2025-10-15

@sofasophia Ja, an aktiven Virenschutz usw. muss man da sehr wohl denken. Aber es gibt eine ansehnliche Anzahl von #PortableApps Also einen Blick darauf ist es allemal wert.

Eine Bekannte von mir (die sehr viel Software testet) hat sich ihre wichtigsten Anwendungen wie Mail, Office, Browser und ein paar andere für sie wichtige Sachen als PortableApps auf eine eigene Partition "installiert". Somit hat sie diese Anwendungen selbst bei einer Neuinstallation sofort und ohne Neuinstallation/Konfiguration und ohne Datenverlust wieder verfügbar.

Wirf einen Blick auf
portableapps.com/
und Du wirst ziemlich überrascht sein was da alles vorhanden ist.

BLE TOU 202 FX Nationalsick@mamot.fr
2025-10-14

Voila Des Programmes Version Portable Pour Clé USB ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: sourceforge.net/projects/porta

#portableapps #windows #astuce

wolfkinwolfkin
2025-08-23

Ugh.. dang it.... @mixxx is great software but it runs the db and settings files LOCALLY and thus in spite of installing it portable you still need to get into system files to access to DB. You can't roam with your database. You have to overwrite whatever is in the local library.

That is super annoying. A truly portable Mixxx would have been so great. At least I know now rather than tomorrow.

Dmian 🇪🇺dmian
2025-08-05

The best part? My boss is on holidays, and I have nobody to ask for authorization. Can’t be more thankful for the existence of than today. Saved my day 😅

João Pazjoaojpaz
2025-06-04

It's great that Meta and Google have kindly directed me to look elsewhere for their replacements.
I had said goodbye to Microsoft and welcome to Linux around Windows 8, but today's turbulent world has made me rethink everything.
The first thing to go was Gmail - hello, Tuta!
Then Chrome - Hello, Vivaldi! Hello, Proton VPN!

(Parts 2 and 3 in the comments 👇)

This somewhat corny image depicts a tornado blowing away meta and google, behind a line of rock steady open-source apps.
James House-Lantto (He/Him)Theeo123
2025-06-03

howtogeek.com/i-turned-a-usb-d

How Jordan Gloor (Senior Editor at How-To-Geek and technology blogger) used AppImages to create A Portable, Linux based, Open Source, Swiss Army Knife.

It reminds me of the old "portableApps.com" approach, but Linux based.

#Portableapps sollte mal über einen Premium-Download-Zugang nachdenken (7 kB/s...) - take my money!

2025-05-23

Leichtgewichtige Option beim Arbeiten mit Datenbanken im Unterricht: #heidisql
Die Windows-Variante lässt sich auch prima in #portableApps einklinken, sollte unter diesem OS gearbeitet werden müssen.
#freieSoftware #schule
heidisql.com/

Programmfenster der Datenbank-Management-App HeidiSQL mit Ansicht auf einige Tabellen. Dahinter ein Programmfenster mit äquivalenten Ausgaben der MariaDB-Kommandozeile.Menü-Fenster der Programmsammlung  PortableApps, darin blau markiert der Eintrag von HeidiSQL. Dahinter ein Textfenster mit Konfigurations-Optionen.
red_rooster :coolified:red_rooster@sueden.social
2025-04-06

#hurra
#portableapps ist wieder online! War am Freitag plötzlich nicht mehr erreichbar

portableapps.com/

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-01-02

@ginaintheburg Are you shure you don't conflate @torproject / #TorBrowser with @tails_live / @tails / #Tails, which is a #Linux #distro with #Tor & Tor #Browser setup and ready to use.

Confusingly Tails has been absorbed by the #TorProject but that's a different story...

As for #Accessibility, maybe the combination of a #HeadMountedDisplay & wireless Keyboard + Mouse combo offers you the desired flexibility...

Windows Portable AppsW_P_A
2024-11-26

#PortableApps im Unternehmen verbieten, weil #OpenSource, #Security, wissenschon - aber stattdessen #Ivanti einsetzen. Okay, das hat eine kritische Sicherheitslücke nach der anderen, aber wenigstens ist es nicht Open Source. Puh.

Gefahr erkannt, Gefahr gebannt. 👍

2024-09-05

@libreoffice Today, non-portable versions went to 24.8.0 for the newest stable and 24.2.6 for the previous stable branch (EOL november). Portable is still stuck at 24.2.3 for the "newest stable" version. Not so far in the past, it is only 4 month late, but I can find no sign of a future update. Maybe I am bad at searching this, maybe you know something helpful?

#portableApps #libreOffice #fosstodon

2024-09-04

Portable versions of LibreOffice , does anyone here know what is happening with those? @libreoffice? It seems like it's been months without one to download on LibreOffice's site. The page is still there, but there are no direct links, only placeholder text.

On PortableApp , "Fresh" is 24.2.3, lagging behind the non-portable "Still" which is today 24.2.5. (Portable "Still" is 7.6.7.)

Will a up-to-date portable LO come back soon?

Boosting is helping 🥰

#portableApps #libreOffice #fosstodon

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