Visual Studio Uninstaller vs Open Live Writer

Visual Studio Uninstaller

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Open Live Writer

An open source fork of Windows Live Writer (by OpenLiveWriter)

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

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.

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...

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.

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