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Microsoft wants to update your Windows 11 PC without forcing you to reboot (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 10 months ago by catculation to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t looking it that much, but while “continue as guest” is a prominent option in Razer Synapse, I was unable to get GeForce Experience to let me install updates without signing in.

It’s whatever though, you can install and update to relatively recent Nvidia drivers with the CUDA winget package. Now that I think about it, around 95% of my Windows software is installed through winget these days. I’m a big fan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I run a main box that I still dual-boot between Linux and Windows, and the rest of my boxes are Linux. I'm definitely skeptical of Microsoft's drive in adding these tools other than to try to unseat Linux dominance in server settings, but for real, some of the stuff they've been adding is pretty tits, like winget for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don’t think there are malicious intentions behind winget. Aside from the fact that it’s objectively useless for server configuration, Windows Server lost to Linux in terms of performance per dollar a long time ago. The target use case for winget seems to have been spinning up new employee PCs, but I’m not confident that it would be wise to use it for that.

It’s also shockingly simple for a package manager. Nearly all of the “packages” simply download the software’s installer from the official website and silently execute it. You can see (and add to) all of the package configs here. It’s literally a GitHub monorepo lmao

Edit: here is the one for Steam, for example. The whole thing is 63 lines of yaml.