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Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

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Re: Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

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Post by prawn »

epall wrote: post #2

Great, but it's not quite there. I'm a geek--I know what all of these do, but I think you've got a chance to target people who don't know what they want. Great job so far!

Maybe a way for third-parties to make a Recommended Install List as a base to start from and promote it. e.g., A List for Web Developers, a Default List, an Essentials List, etc. Including comments from the list creator (a la Amazon's wishlists) explaining what the app is and why they use it or chose it for the list.

e.g., I could create an install list for my family, or for clients.

It's a good idea though.

Re: Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

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Post by bayareaguy »

I'd love something like this that could install all the windows tools I use on machines at work: Emacs, Cygwin, Mercurial (TortoiseHG), Sysinternals, Wireshark, iperf, MySQL & PostgreSQL clients (e.g. pgAdminIII/phpPgAdmin) and either WAMP or XAMPP. MediaWiki, TrueCrypt and OCS Inventory would be nice too.

Re: Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

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Post by pc »

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #12
pc wrote: post #7

Would love to see a Mac version of this.

Wouldn't that just be a folder?

If only. A significant fraction of apps use installers.

Regardless, it's much easier to tick checkboxes with Ninite than it is to individually track files down.

Re: Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

#18

Post by patio11 »

This is amazing and will probably result in Dell selling me a Windows 7 laptop about 6 months ahead of schedule, simply because I was not looking forward to doing a day of setup during which I could get no productive work done.

I seriously wish there was a convenient way to give you whatever the affiliate commission on a new laptop is.

Re: Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

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Post by lupin_sansei »

bayareaguy wrote: post #15

I'd love something like this that could install all the windows tools I use on machines at work: Emacs, Cygwin, Mercurial (TortoiseHG), Sysinternals, Wireshark, iperf, MySQL & PostgreSQL clients (e.g. pgAdminIII/phpPgAdmin) and either WAMP or XAMPP. MediaWiki, TrueCrypt and OCS Inventory would be nice too.

You can suggest new apps to add at the bottom.

Maybe they could deal with too many options by having expandable sections labelled "Developer" or "DBA" etc?

Re: Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)

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Post by lupin_sansei »

patio11 wrote: post #18

This is amazing and will probably result in Dell selling me a Windows 7 laptop about 6 months ahead of schedule, simply because I was not looking forward to doing a day of setup during which I could get no productive work done. I seriously wish there was a convenient way to give you whatever the affiliate commission on a new laptop is.

Here's the opposite of Ninite for new Dell PCs http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
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