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Winget is just garbage. The simplest possible install scenario would be: unzip this file, and add to path. To uninstall: delete this folder. Microsoft's solu
by siproprio 6y ago
Winget is just garbage.
The simplest possible install scenario would be: unzip this file, and add to path.
To uninstall: delete this folder.
Microsoft's solution [0]: if your app is in a zip file, repackage it as a msix/whatever proprietary technology.
To this day, you still can't update, or even uninstall stuff with winget.
But guess what it had baked in since day one (literally the third commit) [1]?
Telemetry.
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/140 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/140
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/commit/67800b07618b5b03263aa6da9ee21f6b06227351 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/commit/67800b07618b5...
- easton 6y agowinget uninstall works fine in my experience. It may still be locked behind an experimental flag though. And if you’ve had telemetry turned off globally in Windows 10, as most people who care do, winget doesn’t send anything back to MS.
- ptx 5y agoHow do you globally turn off telemetry? I thought you could only turn it off in the enterprise version that isn't available to most people.
- siproprio 5y agoAnd it also looks like with winget, microsoft wants to push people to use the awful msix, where everything is locked down, much harder to edit and change and patch, much more complex. It's the opposite of scoop, where everything sits in a single folder, and you can get rid of it easily, and even monkey patch and hack things.