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I've been contributing to the community repo quite a bit[0] for the past few months, and it's exciting that winget has hit 1.0. There's now a decent enough CLI
by easton 5y ago
I've been contributing to the community repo quite a bit[0] for the past few months, and it's exciting that winget has hit 1.0. There's now a decent enough CLI for installing/uninstalling Windows applications, presuming they are well behaved (of course, many are not, but being able to winget uninstall iTunes instead of going through Add/Remove Programs or the modern Settings app is a heck of a lot easier). And there's now a reference implementation (and documentation) for hosting your own source, which means that you don't have to pay Chocolatey or Microsoft (for SCCM) if you just need simple patching of applications on your endpoints and don't want to rely on the community repo.
Sure, portable/loose binaries aren't supported yet, but other than that, there aren't a lot of major things that winget can't do that Chocolatey can, and this is included (or will be included) in the box with the App Installer in Windows 10, so you don't have to bootstrap it.
0: honestly, probably have been committing too much. It's easier than going outside, even if it pollutes my GitHub history.