Added appeal?!

Something I'm curious about:

I hardly ever need to use the PortableApps Platform from a USB etc - I use it from a permanent folder on my hard drive into which I've installed the platform and all the applications.

The advantage is that I can update all my preferred apps (GIMP, PowderToy etc etc) through the app suite more easily than by updating each individually. For someone like me -who'll always want to update to the latest version of GIMP the moment it becomes available- this feels like a big advantage over the other ways of updating within Windows.

I use Linux (Debian & derivatives) and Windows 8.1 more or less equally as often, and one advantage Linux appears to have over Windows is the fact that applications are more easily updated via a terminal than comparable ways of doing so in Windows . The 'Update' function of the PortableApps Platform does a similar job, but within Windows.

I just wonder why you don't make more of that on the website etc. If that advantage -if in fact it is an advantage- was stressed overtly I think more people would be interested in switching to the platform. I never install the non-portable version of GIMP these days, I just update my portable version that's permanently on my hard drive inside PortableApps.

Bit boring now I come to write it down, and I'm guessing someone (you?!) will immediately point me to a page on the website that makes exactly the same point far more eloquently or a discussion that was closed 10 years ago for being far too yawn-inducing. I am interested though...

...Oh, and why no Linux version?!