>You don't just copy the binary on windows. You copy the binary and its dependencies. Unless it's based on .Net-framework, then yeah, you still care about it being updated through windows. Sure, but I can install s/w built for Windows XP into Windows 11 and it will just run 20 years later w/o modification - And I can do this on a large amount of commercial software, so its not a special case example which you can... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

> On Windows I copy a binary and run it w/o giving a crap about the OS updates. You don't just copy the binary on windows. You copy the binary and its dependencies. Unless it's based on .Net-framework, then yeah, you still case about it being updated through windows. > Then you can't have those dependencies managed by a package manager, which means you'll constantly be compiling (and dealing with conflicts... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Of course, tmux isn't the only software that you might want the latest release for. Happily, there's a lot of AppImages available. Source: over 4 years ago

And this is the backend for AppImageHub, I think: Https://appimage.github.io/apps/ (I'm a bit confused regarding who runs what...). Source: over 4 years ago

Sorry to suggest something in response to a rant, but is nearly a container okay, i.e., an AppImage? https://appimage.github.io/apps/, https://apprepo.de/ or https://www.appimagehub.com/ may have something. Alas often AppImages don't want the bulk of including glibc so they might fail anyway. Source: almost 5 years ago

If you like that workflow you might love CheepCode[0] which I built specifically to support it! CheepCode connects to Linear and works on tickets as they roll in, submitting PRs to GitHub. [0] https://cheepcode.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago