MacUpdate Desktop VS Zero Install

MacUpdate Desktop

MacUpdate Desktop makes managing and updating your applications easy and automatic.

Zero Install

Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system.

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Categories	Windows Tools Inventory Management Inventory Forecasting Software Marketplace
Website	macupdate.com
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Categories	OS & Utilities Software Marketplace Code Collaboration Software Recommendations
Website	0install.net
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MacUpdate Desktop videos

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MacUpdate Desktop 6 Screencast

Zero Install videos

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Zero Installation Purifier Reverse Osmosis Unboxing - Demo - Review

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to MacUpdate Desktop and Zero Install)

Zero Install

Windows Tools

56 56%

Windows Tools

44% 44

Software Marketplace

28 28%

Software Marketplace

72% 72

OS & Utilities

0 0%

OS & Utilities

100% 100

Package Manager

100 100%

Package Manager

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Zero Install seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

MacUpdate Desktop mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of MacUpdate Desktop yet. Tracking of MacUpdate Desktop recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Zero Install mentions (4)

Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs
Sounds like https://0install.net which has been around for a while. Personally I prefer to avoid 'installing' anything: if something's written in Java, its launcher should reference some specific java binary; if something's written in Python, it should reference some specific python3 binary; etc. For example, my job is mostly writing Scala and building it with Maven; yet I have neither installed system-wide.... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Go binding for upx utility
It seems more like a package manager. https://0install.net/. Source: over 1 year ago
Ubuntu's Snap performs application updates without user consent
The article mentions Snap, AppImage and FlatPak, but there is also a much older system called 0install (zero install) that was started in 2003 or so [1]. I wonder why that never took off. [1] https://zero-install.sourceforge.net/roadmap.html (note this is the old website; the new website is https://0install.net - looks like it's still getting releases in October this year). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Flaptak (and Snap) is not the future
That's true, future app distributions should utilize web 3.0, e.g. decentralization. There is 0install ( https://0install.net/ ), for example, it is better. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago