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I have been very happy with Homebrew some far. What are some good windows alternative? Making the move from OSX to Windows in a week.
by Raphmedia 10y ago
I have been very happy with Homebrew some far. What are some good windows alternative? Making the move from OSX to Windows in a week.
- _joel 10y agoTry https://chocolatey.org/ https://chocolatey.org/
- agscala 10y agoI switched to Windows last year for work after having worked primarily on Debian and OSX. Chocolatey is the best that I've found. I have run into issues though, so I can't say it's perfect or even close. It's not bad though. https://chocolatey.org/ https://chocolatey.org/ Also depending on the type of development you do, you may be able to use Bash On Windows and use ubuntu's apt for everything.
- catwell 10y agoIf you want Unix-like software, look at msys2 (http://msys2.github.io/ http://msys2.github.io/). Its package manager is Pacman (the same as Arch Linux). When I have to use a Windows machine I basically do everything in a msys2 terminal.
- My2ndAngelic 10y agoI would recommend chocolatey or Npackd, however chocolatey cannot detect what you have already installed on hard disk.
- nilkn 10y agoWindows 10 now has support for the Ubuntu subsystem. You have to flip some settings to enable it and install it, but it's very easy to setup and it creates a complete Linux shell within Windows, including full support for apt-get. I found the default terminal pretty lacking, but you can now use mintty as the terminal: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty https://github.com/mintty/wsltty With this, it's possibly a better Unix experience than macOS. I haven't used it enough to confidently make such a big statement, but it's worked very well so far in my trials.