I personally don’t think this application brings anything useful to the table, and in fact is more of a liability than a help, as we see popping up in the issues page.
I would not recommend anyone use this, despite your test not resulting in anything catastrophic. Others have had negative outcomes, and that needs to be weighed against your neutral outcome.
Same with any other Optimizer. See issues with the very often promoted CCleaner. If someone want to use such an app, it’s preferable to show an FOSS alternative that does it better, without filling his PC with spam and pop-ups like in this commercial app or deleting sensitive files, like IObit or Auslogics, also commercial apps. They all can cause desaster if you use these without caution, clicking on fix it, without checking the result.
Well, any new app in a first release has bugs which are normally get fixed in next versions ifit has a good maintance, at least it’s always good when a soft list the discovered bugs and issues, which in commercial apps isn’t often the case.
If someone want to use such an app, it’s preferable to show an FOSS alternative that does it better
I think it’d be better to instead discourage the use of such apps instead of trying to shift them toward a vibe-coded app that happens to be open-source. It is not somehow less harmful or more ideal if someone’s computer is borked with an open-source app instead of a closed-source app. The less harmful scenario is not to use them at all, and that’s an easy stance to advocate for.
I personally don’t think this application brings anything useful to the table, and in fact is more of a liability than a help, as we see popping up in the issues page.
I would not recommend anyone use this, despite your test not resulting in anything catastrophic. Others have had negative outcomes, and that needs to be weighed against your neutral outcome.
Same with any other Optimizer. See issues with the very often promoted CCleaner. If someone want to use such an app, it’s preferable to show an FOSS alternative that does it better, without filling his PC with spam and pop-ups like in this commercial app or deleting sensitive files, like IObit or Auslogics, also commercial apps. They all can cause desaster if you use these without caution, clicking on fix it, without checking the result.
Well, any new app in a first release has bugs which are normally get fixed in next versions ifit has a good maintance, at least it’s always good when a soft list the discovered bugs and issues, which in commercial apps isn’t often the case.
I think it’d be better to instead discourage the use of such apps instead of trying to shift them toward a vibe-coded app that happens to be open-source. It is not somehow less harmful or more ideal if someone’s computer is borked with an open-source app instead of a closed-source app. The less harmful scenario is not to use them at all, and that’s an easy stance to advocate for.