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How does AppGet compete with apt-get?
by ttsda 6y ago
How does AppGet compete with apt-get?
- hoffs 6y agoIt's not about competing, it's about naming
- arcticfox 6y agoTo me, context matters. 'AppGet' sounds like a friendly hat tip to the legendary apt-get, given that they don't compete. 'WinGet', a direct copy of 'AppGet', is not a friendly reference IMO.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoAnd why is "WinGet" not also a reference to apt-get? I've never even heard of AppGet before this morning.
- fluidcruft 6y agoAppGet sounds like "apt-get". On the other hand "WinGet" sounds like "wing-it" i.e. release any piece of junk and fix later. Maybe. Which TBF does seem to be how Microsoft works anyway.
- efreak 6y ago> release any piece of junk and fix later. Maybe. Which TBF does seem to be how Microsoft works anyway. It's been a while, but I managed to corrupt oneget/package management on windows within a month of it being released; I spent about a week trying to fix it and eventually figured out what the problem was (though I've since forgotten the details) only to find it unfixable without reinstalling Windows. Unfortunately, reinstalling Windows means Office won't reactivate--I've taken it into a Microsoft store, and they couldn't help me.
- philliphaydon 6y agoI thought AppGet was a pun on apt-get and thought the name was clever. I thought it was better named than Chocolatey or Scoop. Edit: plan > pun. (no idea why I wrote plan, i think I wanted to write play)
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- mumblemumble 6y agoChocolatey is a pun on NuGet, which is presumably inspired by apt-get.
- meddlepal 6y agoIt doesn't, but the name is too similar to apt-get. It's a naming issue.