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linuxisfun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• fatalError@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wow, for a seconds I thought you were mocking windows for not having some central software repo like linux uses apt-get, but it actually works o.O
  TIL winget is a thing.

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  • linuxisfun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha, glad to hear that you discovered winget through my post!

    It was, in my opinion, long overdue for Microsoft to introduce a package manager for Windows, but now that it is there, you can actually use it for all kinds of useful stuff. E. g. I would, if I was using Windows, create a PowerShell script to install my software all at once for whenever I reinstall my computer. This makes reinstalling a lot faster and I have documentation about the programs I had installed before. ;)

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    • brsrklf@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Count me in the people who had no idea windows had a command line package manager-style tool.

      Does it look for its stuff in the windows store?

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      • linuxisfun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Winget is able to install applications from multiple sources, including the Microsoft Store. You can see a list of all configured sources by executing winget source list. For regular applications a community repository is preconfigured.

        If you would execute my example command, Firefox would get installed from the community repository. You should be able to use the following command to install the Microsoft Store version of Firefox: winget install 9NZVDKPMR9RD

        9NZVDKPMR9RD is the package id of the Microsoft Store version of Firefox. You can either get it by executing winget search firefox or you can get it from the URL of the Microsoft Store entry.

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    • jungekatz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think they are still updating their repo, i remember adding few basic repos to them !

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• Izzent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Upgrade all, wow. I knew about Winget install, but this is so good!! Thanks for the advice 😁

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• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll be damned… Did not know that existed. I’ve never used the Windows store and it still found updates for most of what I have installed.

  Thanks!

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• AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  K saved this for more difficult times ✌️

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• ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been using chocolatey for years but TIL about winget. Cheers!

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

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• KiofKi@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TIL. Running the upgrade all just now and it's a blessing

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• Tippon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why I’ll never use Windows, it’s just too complicated for the average person. Imagine having to enter commands into the command line just to upgrade your computer, that’s way beyond most people.

  I’d rather just stick with Mint with its GUI and automatic updates 😉

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• ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Love it for libreoffice since getting auto update will likely take a decade

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• Serpardum@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The hero we need.

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