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When searching for chrome on edge browser, you get so many popups that they completely block the screen. Nice one microsoft.
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wow, for a seconds I thought you were mocking windows for not having some central software repo like linux uses apt-get, but it actually works o.O
TIL winget is a thing.
Haha, glad to hear that you discovered
wingetthrough my post!It was, in my opinion, long overdue for Microsoft to introduce a package manager for Windows, but now that it is there, you can actually use it for all kinds of useful stuff. E. g. I would, if I was using Windows, create a PowerShell script to install my software all at once for whenever I reinstall my computer. This makes reinstalling a lot faster and I have documentation about the programs I had installed before. ;)
Count me in the people who had no idea windows had a command line package manager-style tool.
Does it look for its stuff in the windows store?
Winget is able to install applications from multiple sources, including the Microsoft Store. You can see a list of all configured sources by executing
winget source list. For regular applications a community repository is preconfigured.If you would execute my example command, Firefox would get installed from the community repository. You should be able to use the following command to install the Microsoft Store version of Firefox:
winget install 9NZVDKPMR9RD9NZVDKPMR9RD is the package id of the Microsoft Store version of Firefox. You can either get it by executing
winget search firefoxor you can get it from the URL of the Microsoft Store entry.I think they are still updating their repo, i remember adding few basic repos to them !