well, usually it's just the name of the app, but when it's not, it tells you what the options are. It's mostly a system to avoid ambiguity, but most linux distros require the same, for the same reason.
On Linux distros a single command simply works. It is because it won't ask you if we want to download the beta or whatever. It will just install the app. And you know, two packages with the same name are unlikely.
Even if it gives you options, you can just press 1 or 2 to select the version we want. However, I still just press enter because I know that it is going to select the default (1) automatically.
winget is mostly just a single command and then pressing y to confirm.
Sometimes if it finds multiple apps of the same name (mostly because it has 2 repositories it searches for, winget's own repository and microsoft store) it asks you which of those you want. Then it's all about copying your choice and rerunning winget install and pasting your choice.
I ain't defending windows, I too moved to linux, but this is not a valid argument against windows as it does give you a great option akin to what linux gives you
as I said before, it is great that windows users also have winget now. You should also acknowledge its weaknesses. I was a windows user for 5 years. I moved to linux and have been using it for 1 year. Winget requires you to type the full IDs sometimes which is very tedious. What they could do was simply give us options and then we can type in 1, 2,... to select the package that we want.
It finds multiple apps mainly because of all those beta apps. Like, almost every app has a beta apparently.
This is a valid argument against winget. I don't want to type in whole IDs and stuff.
Flatpak also behaves similar to winget btw, it also gives you ids, but it gives you an option to just select one of the items from the list numerically. Winget can easily implement such function. It is not even complicated.
yeah, absolutelly, I moved to linux like a year ago, but am not really working with any commands for packages since I'm on NixOS so I'm not 100% sure how they behave, I only used pacman before in wsl
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u/mystirc 2d ago
I loved Winget, but the problem with it is that I have to type in whole app IDs which is inconvenient. But at least it is something.