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How does this compare to TronScript?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md#use



Can someone explain these two decisions for me?

>DO NOT DOWNLOAD TRON FROM GITHUB, IT WILL NOT WORK!! YOU NEED THE ENTIRE PACKAGE FROM r/TronScript

> Download Tron. The download links are in the top post in /r/TronScript. If you download the self-extracting .exe file, run it and it will extract tron.bat and the \resources folder to the current directory. Copy both of them to the Desktop of the target

Why package a BAT file with an EXE? Even if it has to be distributed in a container, why not a simple ZIP?

And the subreddit literally has a thread with a table that contains download links and a torrent, why would you not include that in the readme?


Smells fishy.

The reason is present the software as open-source while in reality it's closed source with unimportant data files being published on GitHub.


Lovely how on mobile, the reddit page is blocked: you need the app to access it.


https://i.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

Or

https://old.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

If you have trouble opening any reddit website on mobile change "www" with just the letter 'i' or 'old'.

Once they don't allow these workarounds I am leaving reddit for good.


Seriously though. I have old reddit UI always on by default and forget to keep adding the "old" prefix when posting links, so apologies.

I will leave reddit too if they remove the old version.


Or

https://libredd.it/r/TronScript/


Or more lightweight: https://teddit.net/r/TronScript


TronScript is hugely overkill. It makes changes that the vast majority of Windows users, even privacy conscious ones, would not want.

I dread to think how many well-meaning sons and daughters have run it on their parents and relatives PCs and then left, leaving behind a system that is now a nightmare to use.

Also, it takes literally hours to run. I mean, what the hell? ShutUp10 is done in seconds.


The people who normally get spyware can't operate it.


It has a GUI




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