• Flippydoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this something everyone should know to do? Or just style points for programmers?

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      1 year ago

      At the moment i like choco more than winget, so winget is now the tool to install choco???

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          1 year ago

          I write at the moment, because the it’s good that microsoft finally has a package manager. But even though choco is community maintained, it’s quite good and has a lot things microsoft not yet has. But what annoys me the most with winget ist, that the package names outside of the store packages have horrible names. But you are correct, official is better.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah I really like choco as well, I have my little script to keep softs updated, I haven’t spent much time with winget yet. I might be wrong but I think Choco installs software in specific folders instead of the usual C:\Programs or Appdata ?

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      1 year ago

      More like sysadmins not programmers. I’ve met plenty of programmers that write brilliant code, but don’t know how to manage computers very well.

      • Flippydoo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Gotcha. I don’t know the difference between all the techy jobs, you all just do various forms of magic to my muggle brain.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t have to know it, but it’s a good thing to know!

      It’s actually easier than the other way once you learn how to use it (looking through search results to make sure it’s the official link, clicking through installers, having to think about updates, etc. vs. just opening a terminal and typing winget install whatever).

      But the terminal intimidates people. So I expect this will mainly be used as an optional “tech tip” sort of thing.

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      1 year ago

      using winget is a much safer and faster way to install new software. yes command prompt seems intimidating but it’s super easy, you don’t need 1337 hack0rz skillz to use it

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        1 year ago

        Do you know why there are multiple packages named similar to the original ones? For example there are multiple Vim packages in the winget repository which makes it confusing.