Open Live Writer vs Visual Studio Uninstaller

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Open Live Writer		Visual Studio Uninstaller
	Project
1	Mentions	2
2,447	Stars	3,471
0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 5 years ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Open Live Writer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Open Live Writer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.

Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021

Open Live Writer was last updated two years ago, it's a desktop app not targeting developers which turned into open source.

Visual Studio Uninstaller

Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Uninstaller. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-04.

Trying to install Visual Studio 2015 Community version for Windows, running into issues with existing Redistributable packages.
2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 4 Aug 2023

Then I did a complete uninstall of the downloaded Visual Studio 2015 using this tool I found on reddit. Then I went to the ISO image once again and ran the installer, hoping this time, it would install the 2015 Redistributable now that the newer version was uninstalled.
The Curse of Systems Thinkers
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2022

Sometimes they even have to create a separate project within the organization to cleanup the mess the owning team won't take on:
https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller/release...

What are some alternatives?

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Myrtille - A native HTML4 / HTML5 Remote Desktop Protocol and SSH client

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