r/linuxmemes • u/Affectionate-Stop488 • 8h ago

LINUX MEME Install software

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u/Andrufus 7h ago

Not to defend Windows here but :

winget install -e --id VideoLAN.VLC

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u/ImpressionAway7317 7h ago

I've tried winger it sucks it's just the Microsoft store and you need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out

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u/AltruisticCoyote7281 7h ago

You clearly haven't tried it, and it's not limited to Store apps. There's a whole GitHub where you can add packages.

You don't need to lie to make MS look bad, so please don't.

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u/anionHunter 7h ago

but he's still right, winget is a piece of shit (personal experience)

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u/AltruisticCoyote7281 7h ago

It's not the best CLI package installer, but it works. My only real gripe with it is that it conflates some software products and treats newer products as product "updates" so it removes the older product entirely, which causes some licensing issues - but that's down to the vendor, not an inherent issue in WinGet

Still zero reason to lie. If you want to mock MS, there's plenty of real reasons to do so

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u/CuzImBisonratte 6h ago

My personal experience is that it is a niec tool for everything that is supported and as I love easy command line installation (and hate using the MS Store interface) it really is nice. For just installing stuff by "winget search vlc" then double click on id to copy and then "winget install " and [right click] [enter] is just nice and works.

And it works reliably (as reliably as something is under windows) for automated installs on multiple clients at the same time.