As a former Windows user, Chocolatey is a great way to get used to a package manager through Windows. I used it to install stuff like hwinfo or wiztree.
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ikidd@lemmy.world 6 months agoI feel angry when I have to hunt down the installer for an application under Windows, and then know I have to go find it again later to update it. I have no clue how I got by without a package manager on Windows. Though if they had one, you have to know it would be complete intrusive dogshit about 5 minutes into its existence.
glitchy_nobody@leminal.space 6 months ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Chocolatey’s saving grace is that it’s third party. IDK how well it’s maintained and expanded, it’s been some time since I used it and there wasn’t much on it when I did.
glitchy_nobody@leminal.space 6 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
i still dont fucking understand updating packages on windows. God forbid you install it in a different directory 3 months from now when you no longer remember where you installed it.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
You can use the official WinGet package manager for Windows pretty easily.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Shhhhh Windows bad! /s
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I mean… Windows is bad in many respects, but that respect isn’t necessarily one of them.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
idk man, it’s pretty bad, there’s winget, there;s chocolatey, and theres also microsoft store, and they’re like, all different?
Oh and you can just install exes wildly like a rogue. Thats another option.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
you can also just use linux. Every flavor of linux except for nix (kind of) and LFS have a package manager