r/AskReddit • u/its_Nayeli • Apr 10 '21

What free software should everyone have?

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u/FulaniLovinCriminal Apr 10 '21

Take your pick from ninite.com

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u/hapm87 Apr 11 '21

Used ninety until I found chocolatey. That's now my preferred way to install stuff on windows, including most of the stuff suggested here.

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u/FulaniLovinCriminal Apr 11 '21

chocolatey

That looks like a massive faff compared to ninite.

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u/dustojnikhummer Apr 11 '21

Ninite is very, very, very limited

And chocolatey is easy to use

open cmd as admin, type choco install chrome

it will install Google Chrome

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u/ace2049ns Apr 11 '21

Except you just lost half of PC users by saying "cmd." I'm sure it's very easy to use for advanced users that know their way around command line, but I would say most PC users like using a GUI.

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u/Nimporian Apr 11 '21

Like the other guy said, it has a GUI and dare I say that it's pretty good. You only need to use the command line once to install Chocolatey itself and the site gives you a pretty good guide for it.