You must be relying on inferior update mechanism. This is a solved problem since long with a central package repository as you will find in most linux distros. On windows you have scoop, chocolathy and winget (from microsoft btw) attempting something similar, on macos there is macports and homebrew.
> Even most opensource tools are hundreds of MB
Even if this was true, and it isnt, I dont think you realize how heavy most web pages are today. Those hundreds of MB is used up fast, while the offline app is still there.
> For example, a school teacher in Zambia does not need to download digikam or okular or notepad++ or ffmpeg every week to get security updates.
Agreed. Noone needs to do that. If you are concerned with security, then you should also learn to understand your attack surface. Otherwise it is just FUD.
Example dont feed ffmpeg with unknown files in a uncontrolled fashion. You should understand that the videos you recorded yourself are safe and wouldnt need the very latest update to be processed.
You must be relying on inferior update mechanism. This is a solved problem since long with a central package repository as you will find in most linux distros. On windows you have scoop, chocolathy and winget (from microsoft btw) attempting something similar, on macos there is macports and homebrew.
> Even most opensource tools are hundreds of MB
Even if this was true, and it isnt, I dont think you realize how heavy most web pages are today. Those hundreds of MB is used up fast, while the offline app is still there.
> For example, a school teacher in Zambia does not need to download digikam or okular or notepad++ or ffmpeg every week to get security updates.
Agreed. Noone needs to do that. If you are concerned with security, then you should also learn to understand your attack surface. Otherwise it is just FUD.
Example dont feed ffmpeg with unknown files in a uncontrolled fashion. You should understand that the videos you recorded yourself are safe and wouldnt need the very latest update to be processed.
> Once you enter that then you have only https://www.raptorengineering.com/ and using terminal.
What, no. Using normal offline apps is all it takes.