Winget brings Linux-like centralised package management to Windows
“A package manager is a little bit like an app store, but it is both more fundamental and more versatile. Unlike app stores, which primarily deal with distributing first and third-party applications, package managers can also be used to manage the basic components of an operating system, like drivers, or major system updates.”
Yes, Linux generally manages the installation and update of all apps centrally from their package managers (you can even activate Snap, Flatpak, etc updates from inside the package manager). It makes the process pretty seamless, and often involves no rebooting even.
Apparently this Winget app is built into Windows already, and if so, I'm pretty amazed it is not a well-known utility already. It just needs to be activated. Certainly, if I used Windows still, I'd want to be using it.
I suspect though the issue for Windows users may be that it appears to be terminal based (which is easily remedied with a batch filer and desktop icon), but seeing Linux could do GUI package managers I really wonder why Microsoft never turned this into a GUI package manager. Actually, anyone who knows Python could also make this into a GUI package manager.
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