Well, I did say "maybe"... I guess what I was trying to get at is that before I would enthusiastically recommend their products to other people. Now I don't use them, so I never mention them to anyone.
I don't seem to have a problem using separate installers for something like Blender, but the activation energy seems too high for installing "small" utilities[1].
That said, if I could get larger applications from Ninite, I'd pull from there in a heartbeat!
If you don't mind using the portable versions of the larger apps like Blender, you can install the PortableApps.com Platform on your local hard drive and install and update all of those apps in a couple clicks. (Our portable apps work just fine locally, they just won't appear in your start menu by default, you have to add a shortcut manually or launch them using the PA.c Platform) Apps like Blender, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, GnuCash, Scribus, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
I don't seem to have a problem using separate installers for something like Blender, but the activation energy seems too high for installing "small" utilities[1].
That said, if I could get larger applications from Ninite, I'd pull from there in a heartbeat!
[1] Utilities may not /actually/ be small.