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Is this something everyone should know to do? Or just style points for programmers?
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.
Gotcha. I don't know the difference between all the techy jobs, you all just do various forms of magic to my muggle brain.
At the moment i like choco more than winget, so winget is now the tool to install choco???
winget uses official repos, choco uses its own community-maintained repo.
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.
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 ?
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.
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
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.
You don't have to know how to do it unless you want to install Firefox on Windows without ever having to open Edge. In that case, this is one way to do it.