Community Edition Portable - Pycharm
Several third-party projects automate the creation of portable PyCharm packages: PyCharm Community portable app
: Navigate to PyCharm/bin/idea.properties . Uncomment and edit the following lines to point to local folders on your drive: idea.config.path=../config idea.system.path=../system idea.plugins.path=../plugins idea.log.path=../log
Within seconds, his familiar "Dracula" dark theme flickered to life. All his custom keybindings were there. His favorite plugins—Black for formatting and a niche CSV editor—were pre-loaded. Because he had configured the file to redirect the "config" and "system" paths to the USB drive itself, the host computer didn't even know he was there.