I'm replying to myself in reply to everyone who replied to me.
Thanks all for the explanations, much appreciated, I thought I was missing something. I really should have known though, Ive been using portable apps for over 20 years on windows and remember.net apps not being considered portable way back when, which are now considered portable since the run time is on all modern windows.
I can't really comment about snap since I don't use Ubuntu but I thought flatpaks would work similar to how portable apps on windows do. Clearly I'm wrong, but how is it that windows can have portable apps of a similar size to their installable versions and Linux cannot? I know I'm missing something fundamental here, like how people blame Linux for lack of hardware support without acknowledging that hardware vendors do the work for windows to work correctly.
Either way disk space is cheap and abundant now. If I need thenlastest version of something I will use flatpaks.
Do they buy it outright of pay a fraction of the cost upfront then overpay for it on expensive monthly contracts? I very much doubt most of the 50% US market aren't tied into 24 month contracts.
1. Upwork connected the client and freelancer.
2. The client used someone else's money/credit to pay the freelancer.
3. The fraud was found out and the money refunded.
This, then, IMO is between the client, Upwork, and the police. Nothing to do with the freelancer. They are a victim in this fraud as well. Upwork have no right to demand money from the freelancer, their platform allowed the fraud, they're liable.