Flash Drive

[Adrien Monteleone]

All of the apps on that site are open source. There is already a linux version for all of them. The only advantage would be the ability to run them off a stick instead of internally, but at that point, one would do better to run the OS itself off the stick which is easily done. Running Windows versions of those apps through Wine in such a case is circuitous with unneeded overhead. If there were really an issue where those apps wouldn’t fit on an internal storage along with the OS and you didn’t want to run the OS off an external device, then using a snap package versions of those apps would be the way to go.

Anyway, I think the OP noted they had sufficient space for the install, and just wanted to keep their data file on the external drive.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 18, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/18/2017 3:31 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> As I understand those links, portableapps.com works on these other operating systems by using Wine, a virtual windows emulator.
>> So, you'd install a windows emulator on your linux machine (125mb) in order to run gnucash as a portable app on a stick so as to save installing Gnucash (175mb) on your hard drive.
>> That doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.
>> David
>>  
> That would be true if there were only one Windows app requiring the emulator. It would scarcely pay just for gnucash. But if there were several, another kettle of fish. The person who was asking the initial question has a "very small primary hard drive" and so presumably would want to run whatever could be run from an external drive that way. Not JUST gnucash << even though at the moment, only gnucash the issue >>
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