• rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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      11 months ago

      Fuck Winget. It’s a GUI-only person’s idea of what a CLI package manager should be. The only positive value I can think of is that it’s better than not having one at all.

      I manage about 500 Windows machines in a university. When teachers started complaining that they are unfamiliar with the paid version of an IDE, and we’d have to install the free community edition, I was delighted to learn that it was available through Winget. But privilege escalation on Windows is a fucking joke, so trying to install it remotely through Ansible/WinRM just popped the UAC anyway. I had to VNC into every single machine to click the fucking button. As an additional middle finger, winget.exe was not even in PATH when I tried WinRMing as the local admin.

      Winget is the absolute nadir of package managers, and it should be doused in acid, burned, chucked in the dumpster where it belongs, and forgotten. Choco and Scoop all the way.

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          11 months ago

          I find that winget tends to just grab M$ Store packages, essentially becoming just an alternative CLI frontend.

          Chocolatey, however, actually grabs the native program. And it isn’t developed by Microsoft.

          Even Scoop is good enough, however programs might not work perfectly because it uses portable versions of the program.

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          11 months ago

          But some apps don’t function properly if not installed. So I think that chocolatey is better.