Getting a new laptop imminently, and am going to take the opportunity to start fresh.

Should I try #WinGet as a pseudo package manager, or stick with #Chocolatey?

I've heard the former can be limited, partially due to not supporting complex installation scripts, but the latter always feels a bit messy to use and maintain.

I've just formatted my desktop and Winget is such a awesome tool. I don't know when they updated it, but now Winget installs the apps and automatically updates the environment variables! So easy to use!

#windows #terminal #winget

Genialer neuer #Windows11 und #Windows10 Befehl erleichtert ALLES.
#Terminal

Da hat #Microsoft von #Linux kopiert … der Befehl #Winget hat die gleiche Funktion wie der Linux-Befehl appget, den es schon lange gibt.

Mit winget kann man fast alle installierten Apps und Programme mit einem Tastaturklick updaten.

Hat man Apps wie 7zip, Aida, CPU-Z, CrystalDiskInfo, Microsoft Visual C++ und andere installiert, dann kann man diese in der Kommandozeile mit „winget upgrade -all“ in Sekunden direkt updaten und braucht nicht mehr jede Webseite einzeln zu besuchen und dort das Update runterladen und installieren.

Dieser winget Befehl funktioniert bei Windows 11 und bei aktuellen Versionen von Windows 10 22H2 mit allen installierten Windows Updates.

https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=pjLf8iiDTK4

( Linux bleibt aber sicherer und stabiler 😘 )

Genialer neuer #Windows11 und #Windows10 Befehl erleichtert ALLES.
#Terminal

Da hat #Microsoft von #Linux kopiert … der Befehl #Winget hat die gleiche Funktion wie der Linux-Befehl appget, den es schon lange gibt.

Mit winget kann man fast alle installierten Apps und Programme mit einem Tastaturklick updaten.

Hat man Apps wie 7zip, Aida, CPU-Z, CrystalDiskInfo, Microsoft Visual C++ und andere installiert, dann kann man diese in der Kommandozeile mit „winget upgrade -all“ in Sekunden direkt updaten und braucht nicht mehr jede Webseite einzeln zu besuchen und dort das Update runterladen und installieren.

Dieser winget Befehl funktioniert bei Windows 11 und bei aktuellen Versionen von Windows 10 22H2 mit allen installierten Windows Updates.

https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=pjLf8iiDTK4

( Linux bleibt aber sicherer und Stabiler 😘 )

@totoroot I don’t know anything about nix but it sounds complicated. that’s kind of the opposite of what I want. what’s great is #WinGet lol

Why does #winget download and install installers one by one in serial, instead of getting all the installers in parallel ahead of time and then batching them? It's too slow when updating all packages.

I'm having fun using winget on Windows. Still inferior to pretty much any Linux package manager, but it's nice Windows finally has one.

Pros:
* Windows finally has a package manager

Cons:
* Picked up all of the weaknesses of apt, none of its strengths
* You have to type the entire package id to install software, meaning you can't just guess by typing in "firefox"
* Clunky and slow

#windows #winget

How did I install applications on Windows before #winget? 😭

Me with the Winget package manager:

Winger install slack

Winget: Oh no dude, you’re gonna have to type the whole package name.

Me: Oh fine. Winged install Slack.slack

Winget: Mmm, close enough. I’ll let that pass.

Me, with Homebrew: homebrew install slack

Homebrew: Oh, you did mean the cask, right? Yeah, I can do that for you. Okay, Slack is installed!

Like, I just want my tools to work with me a bit. I understand why Winget does that, since there might be a store version and a regular desktop app, and using -e switch might make it do some magic or not. But goodness can we focus on more interactive usage rather than just “Oh yeah well I mean with Winget you can batch install stuff with a script and be precise about it.”

#Winget #Homebrew #mac #windows

OK, then: MS has fixed the post-install cleanup when using #WinGet to update #PowerShell inside PowerShell. Now: it all works! Deets follow... #WindowsInsiders #WIMVP #Windows10 #Windows11 https://www.edtittel.com/blog/winget-upgrade-powershell-working.html

Reached the TOP 15 in winget / Windows Package Manager in term of number of software. 🎉

#windows #software #winget

https://lokinet.org/ 興味深い #winget には収録されていない

This week, I've reached the Top 20 of companies in term of number of software registered in #WinGet / Windows Package Manager 🎉

🔝2️⃣0️⃣ #software

https://keybase.io/

#winget install keybase.keybase でインストールしてみる

I had the displeasure of having to use #winget on #Windows11 for installing #ffmpeg and it was a pretty bad experience.

winget said installed successfully but after reopening cmd, I still couldn’t use ffmpeg.

I had to manually download the latest build as mentioned in ffmpeg website.

Turns out, this is a known issue which is still not fixed https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/95349

Solution: Manually update the environment variable of ffmpeg (added by winget) to include “ffmpeg-xx/bin” directory.

#windows

@Hexangon

Seit das auch in Windows möglich ist (auf das ich beruflich nicht verzichten kann), ist das auch da meine bevorzugte Update-Variante.

#console #PowerShell #winget

Hmm. #Chocolatey (a Windows package manager) handles self-update poorly. If you run it inside a PowerShell Core session, updating PowerShell Core will fail. If you update Chocolatey itself, updating that will partially succeed with a warning. You’d think it would be smart enough to relaunch itself from a different path?

Is #WinGet better at this?

Today I've reached the Top 30 in term of number of software registered in #WinGet / Windows Package Manager.

🔝3️⃣0️⃣ #software

Unboxing: @cj_berlin examines Chocolatey and WinGet package management tools for Windows and helps you determine which is best for your environment https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2023/73/Package-management-tools-for-Windows#Windows #PackageManagement #WinGet #Chocolatey #CLI #tools

Today I've reached the Top 50 in term of number of software registered in #WinGet / Windows Package Manager.

🔝5️⃣0️⃣ :java: #software