Unable to Install Shapeshifter on Windows 8.1

[raaomoka]

Describe the bug
I downloaded the current latest Shapeshifter installer (v6.2018.922.2862) from the shapeshifter.app website. However, when I double-click to run it, nothing happens on my Windows 8.1 PC. No pop-up window, nothing...besides my PC fan.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to the shapeshifter.app website
2. Click on 'Download Now' & save the Shapeshifter installer to your Windows 8.1 PC
3. Doublle-click/run installer, notice no installer appears

Expected behavior
I get the installation dialog, with options and directions to install the Shapeshifter software.

Screenshots
N/A

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 8.1 Pro (v6.3 Build 9600)
• Browser: Microsoft Edgium
• Version 87.0.664.47

Additional context
This is on a HP Pavilion g6-1c40ca Notebook PC, with 6GB RAM (albeit Windows is hardware-reserving a whopping 2.5GB for some reason), and a 1TB SSD.

[ffMathy]

Shapeshifter is currently quite dormant unfortunately. I'm the sole maintainer, doing this for fun, and I have many other open source projects of my making to attend to.

If you'd like to show your support and potentially accelerate the fix of this issue, consider becoming a sponsor on Patreon. That way, you don't actually pay anything unless major updates arrive. And I don't expect them to arrive until quite some time, but if enough people become sponsors, I'll probably start doing this as my main project.

I hope you understand!

[GPopZach]

Shapeshifter is currently quite dormant unfortunately. I'm the sole maintainer, doing this for fun, and I have many other open source projects of my making to attend to.

If you'd like to show your support and potentially accelerate the fix of this issue, consider becoming a sponsor on Patreon. That way, you don't actually pay anything unless major updates arrive. And I don't expect them to arrive until quite some time, but if enough people become sponsors, I'll probably start doing this as my main project.

I hope you understand!

"Doing this for fun sponsor me pleez"

Why would anyone support a developer that abandons projects without finding a new maintainer, and sets unrealistic milestones, never to reach them?

[ffMathy]

@Zachpocalypse excuse me.

I have more than 200 repositories, around 100 of them that need regular maintenance. My open-source software on NuGet (C# packages) has been downloaded more than 1 million times in total, and my NPM packages are being used by Amazon for their AWS development team.

Look at my Commit Graph of the year. It's not like I'm just resting.

Open Source work is hard. It's hard already to find time for all my projects. The project has not been abandoned, but I am prioritizing things that, you know, can actually support me, to keep doing what I am doing.

It could seem to me as if you are being incredibly spoiled and naive in your viewpoint. I'd gladly appoint a new maintainer. Are you going to be the one? Or perhaps help me find one? No?

I started developing Shapeshifter when I was 16. Today I am 29. This is version 6, which has taken a lot of development years in total. Years of my own time. Didn't get anything for it.

As for the support, you are aware that on Patreon you'll actually only pay me once a major software release comes out? Many supporters there have not paid a single dollar in a year or so.

Trust me, I would love to work on Shapeshifter again. And having more sponsors on Patreon will make it easier for me to prioritize. Become a Patreon sponsor. You won't pay a thing until you get what you want - your sweet major software release of Shapeshifter. Why would I ask you to do so, if it was just to relax and rest? I wouldn't gain anything. It's quite simple really.

In the meanwhile, please open your eyes, and try to understand things beyond your own narrow viewpoint.

When you have this many projects that corporations and individuals rely on, it's hard to prioritize projects that don't give you anything in return. You would make the same priorities (anyone would), because it is objectively the right choice when you have zero time left.

My dream is to be fully supported to do open source work. If I ever receive enough donations to do that, I'd work on Shapeshifter as my top priority, and most likely close to full time. Until then, I'll work on the projects that are depended on by most people, and give me the most support.

[mcprat]

@Zachpocalypse you should be addressing your grievances with Microsoft, who made that POS operating system

or do yourself a favor and install a Linux distro with KDE, where clipboard history has been standard and stable forever

ask yourself, what turns a small personal project into a large professional one?
what makes any project fail when everything is working fine?

DEMAND

A small amount of people having an issue doesn't constitute demand, especially if they have nothing to contribute to the project.

so at the end of the day, if you don't have anything to say that helps the project, you might as well talk to a wall instead.

[GPopZach]

@Zachpocalypse excuse me.

I have more than 200 repositories, around 100 of them that need constant maintenance. My open-source software on NuGet (C# packages) has been downloaded more than 1 million times in total, and my NPM packages are being used by Amazon for their AWS development team.

@ffMathy A bit of bloating your numbers considering how many of those are just forks of your dependencies, but you do have enough of your own work to make the heavy workload point valid.

• Yes, I'd be perfectly happy to maintain it, why would I post about something I'm not willing to solve myself? I'm not the only one jumping to conclusions ;) I'd decided to just do my own in Rust anyway, I could just direct the time/effort into giving new life to an existing project instead of reinventing the wheel...again.

• I wasn't aware Patreon implemented support models aside from monthly. I made an unfair assumption, and for that I apologize.

• My only remaining point of note is you'd originally held it for the release of .NET 5, milestones rarely get met precisely when we estimate, but in the OS community, it's just showing courtesy to those use a project to give some sort of update when/if pre-established plans change.

[ffMathy]

@ffMathy A bit of bloating your numbers considering how many of those are just forks of your dependencies, but you do have enough of your own work to make the heavy workload point valid.

Oh please. This looks like a "Oh shit, I went too far, but I won't admit my mistake entirely" kind of comment.

• Yes, I'd be perfectly happy to maintain it, why would I post about something I'm not willing to solve myself? I'm not the only one jumping to conclusions ;) I'd decided to just do my own in Rust anyway, I could just direct the time/effort into giving new life to an existing project instead of reinventing the wheel...again.

Those are just words. Where is your pull request? So far you've only made fun of my comment and contributing with a negative attitude. "Jumping to conclusions"? Not sure how I am doing that, and that's exactly what you did with your comment.

• I wasn't aware Patreon implemented support models aside from monthly. I made an unfair assumption, and for that I apologize.

You could have commented on it politely. Instead you made a fool out of yourself by making fun of me based on nothing. Also, I stated that you would only pay for major software releases, in the original post. Perhaps read the post next time before commenting.

• My only remaining point of note is you'd originally held it for the release of .NET 5, milestones rarely get met precisely when we estimate, but in the OS community, it's just showing courtesy to those use a project to give some sort of update when/if pre-established plans change.

Easy to say for the guy that literally has as many repositories as I can count with my own hands, has zero README.md files on them, and gave zero f**** about the open-source aspect of things. That being said, I have changed the README.md to ask for help, without setting a deadline. I initially really wanted to contribute to it when .NET 5 came out, then forgot about it, and got sidetracked. That happens to human beings sometimes. It doesn't justify being an ass.