I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • FOSS Is Fun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Windows actually has a package manager preinstalled.

    On any up-to-date Windows 10 and 11 computer that has the App Installer app installed (it should be preinstalled), you can use winget to manage your applications. Winget has the Microsoft Store and a community repository preconfigured and you can add additional sources, if you want.

    You can use it via a terminal:

    • Install a package: winget install Mozilla.Firefox
    • Update all applications on your computer: winget upgrade --all
    • Oscar@programming.devEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Something i especially appreciate about winget us that it will “index” (or whatever you want to call it) software that was installed outside of it. For example if I install app XYZ through an .msi setup file, I can update it using winget.

      So it seems I can also use scoop or chocolatey to install new software and then keep managing them through winget.