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.

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      1 year ago

      What annoys me about the various forms of package management that exist on Windows nowadays is that while Microsoft started embracing package management they didn’t bother adding proper infrastructure to enable it. So yes, we now can pull stuff from a global catalog on Windows, and it more or less keeps track what is installed - but for a lot of stuff in the back it’s still just wrapping traditional Windows installers (with funny errors thrown through the package manager when things go wrong), and there’s no tracking of installed files.

      I can’t just list a package to see all files it claims to own - or the other way round, query a random file to see which package it belongs to. I’m typically using package managers way more to query stuff than to install - and on Windows one important tool still just doesn’t exist.

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        1 year ago

        For real, it’s sad how stuck on running an executable to install software windows is. Even msi might as well be an exe

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      1 year ago

      I was using Winget, then I realised everything is user specific, so I went straight back to Chocolatey.

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        1 year ago

        I like chocolatey but my IT department called me one time asking me to please stop running so many powershell scripts 😅 like wtf you gave me local admin am I not allowed to use it? No one has complained about winget yet