LxRunOffline VS Squirrel

Are you a developer? The way I managed to get WSL was when an IT support person updated my Docker Desktop and enabled the WSL 2 backend. Unfortunately installing a distro didn't work but I managed to work around that using LxRunOffline. However now I can install any distro using "wsl --install".

You could run wsl --export to backup your Ubuntu env. Or there's a tool called lxrunoffline that could do the same thing too.

I recommend the LxRunOffline tool. DDoSolitary/LxRunOffline: A full-featured utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) (github.com)

The script will download the LxRunOffline distro manager to bootstrap the installation. Install times will vary depending on system performance and presence of antivirus software. A fast system with broadband Internet can complete the install in under 10 minutes and most machines will complete within 20 minutes.

I never had much luck with ClickOnce, so I was using Squirrel.Windows. I've recently switched to the Clowd.Squirrel fork, since I needed support for AzureSignTool in the build process.

As soon as Office 2007 didn't use MSI the format was doomed.

I assume the Here in NIH refers to an individual team, not MS as a whole.

Teams is entirely NIH https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows for updates to the Electron app.

I would use winget, but MS made it weirdly hard to run as a script on multiple computers, it installs per user, because... who knows.

So still using chocolatey

Back in the day, wasn't Discord installed using Squirrel?

Originally, we used to use Squirrel.Windows for our internal applications but we had a few issues with it before we finally dropped it.

The most viable option with the path of least resistance would be Squirrel.Windows as it is both and installer and updater but has some caveats (SemVer pattern must be followed).

Maybe someone has a better ide, but this is one of many reasons why I'm trying to get all our old ClickOnce installers migrated to something else (I've heard good things about Squirrel.

Electron does have auto-update built in (Squirrel), but it comes with severe non-price related caveats. Squirrel is only intermittently maintained and goes through long periods in which the different versions are abandoned (see for Windows, macOS). People have requested a switch to Sparkle on macOS, which is what Conveyor uses, but with no response. There's also the issue that their update solutions require interactive servers but the only free one is restricted to open source projects, and isn't itself open source. The Electron website points you towards a variety of projects if you want to run your own server but all of them are (again) abandoned for years.

We replaced clickonce with https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows and are generally happy with the choice

Discord in the Task Manager can sometimes show up as "Update", made by GitHub, because Discord uses a program, that GitHub / their devs were/are involved with making, to update the app, and some kind of bug happens that means it doesn't display as 'Discord'.