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Windows VS Linux (part 2) (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember DLL hell in windows 2000? Damn that was rough.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Chocolatey is the best option I've found for this on Windows:

Chocolatey was created by Rob Reynolds in 2011 with the simple goal of offering a universal package manager for Windows. Chocolatey is an open source project that provides developers and admins alike a better way to manage Windows software.

You can install & uninstall software from the command line and update everything installed through it with one command.

It's not a real package manager of course. It can't update the operating system, and Windows applications aren't built for modularity and shared libraries the way Linux applications are. But it does automate application management like nothing else. I highly recommend this if you use Windows.

[–] hubobes 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I always prefered scoop with which I had fewer issues and which installs everything without needing admin rights.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Tbh, with stuff like Winget and the respective GUI apps the process for installing or upgrading software is pretty much the same nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

WinGet: Am I a joke to you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Winget-ui is great, except Microsoft hasn't figured out to conceptually make two installs of the same product get treated the same -- absolutely pathetic that if you install VLC from their website you can never ever ever use Winget VLC without uninstalling the other.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Windows side of things is getting better though, thanks to winget. Not perfect and it f's up with certain packages but already a lot better than updating by hand.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Missing dependency? Don't you like living away from your parents?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Windows updating experience, both the system and apps via the Microsoft Store is so fucking bad it's unbelievable. Shit just stops working all the time, updates fail, grinds the whole system to a halt etc.

For several years now I've been unable to update apps in the Microsoft store in one go, I have to open it, click "get updates" and the circular progression bar goes to about 1/5 and then just stops. So I have to close the app, wait a few minutes, open it again and then press the "play" button for every single app that has updates for the download to actually start, nothing else works. It's been the same for Windows 10 and 11 across four different computers.

There was a Windows 10 update several months ago, might even have been last year that just failed for a ton of people and it took months before it was fixed.