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Help Notpad++ take down the parasite website (notepad-plus-plus.org)

submitted 7 months ago by DaveedMee@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

How do people even find the legitimate sites for Win apps these days? I mostly can't. Even the legitimate github repos occasionally link to Sourceforge wtf

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I often take the link from the project's Wikipedia page if it's big enough to have one.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 7 months ago

Also alternativeto.net

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, actually, anybody can edit Wikipedia and the page updates immediately.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

True but I'd hope that there's still some review for the bigger projects. Of course, it's possible that a malicious link is inserted right before I go there but it's still more reliable than just chosing the first result on Google.

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

winget maybe?

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

+1, also chocolatey

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Chocolatey here.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ninite is pretty great, too.

[–] florge@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Off topic, but how are you meant to pronounce winget? Win-get or wing-et?

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 20 points 7 months ago

I would say win-get, since it's a way for getting packages on windows

[–] DaveedMee@beehaw.org 9 points 7 months ago

I'm glad I got most sites I download programs for memorized or have the programs already on my hard drive

[–] ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

Sourceforge has stopped distributing adware installers again since they changed ownership a few years ago.

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't. I try to migrate over to Linux and the there is the Paketmanager which has a GUI. I guess you could do the same with the store?

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

The Microsoft Store adds a lot of restrictions to their programs (example of Python's problems).