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Has anyone used this already, and how does it compare to OneGet with the ChocolateyGet provider?

• Shadonototra 5y ago
  it's a native program, it is MUCH FASTER and lightweight chocolatey is a powershell script, whenever you run it it needs to initialize dotnet and the JIT needs to do its work one downside: i should be included in windows, and not having to install from the store, like wtf did they smoke?
  • chokolad 5y ago
    > i should be included in windows, and not having to install from the store, like wtf did they smoke? It is included in Windows 11
    • smhenderson 5y ago
      Then it should be easy enough for them to install it to Windows 10 on the next Feature Update. If they can stick a News toolbar on my taskbar with an update than surely something as important and useful as this can be added as well.
      • nightski 5y ago
        It is available on Windows 10 and takes less than a minute to install. The next feature update is Windows 11. I don't believe you should expect new features in 10 anymore, that wouldn't make much sense.
        • WorldMaker 5y ago
          There is still a 21H2 update for Windows 10. (It's a strange confusion that seems like it should have been avoidable that 10 and 11 will both have [different] 21H2 versions.) Also, winget is slowly getting installed automatically on Windows 10 (all the way back to the Anniversary Update if machines are still running 1607 for some reason but also still getting Microsoft/Windows Store updates, to my understanding).
        • smhenderson 5y ago
          It is available on Windows 10 and takes less than a minute to install. Fair enough and your point about feature updates for 10 ending makes sense. My point is that I shouldn't have to use the store for a feature like this. I avoid the store completely and have never installed anything from it. I don't think useful system features like this should be part of the store at all.
          • tmottabr 5y ago
            you might not have installed anything from it but win10 comes with a bunch of store stuff bundled and store stuff auto-update (eventually). So you might even already have this. in fact.. even if you don't use store for anything else i advise you to open it and make sure everything is updated (no login or accounts needed). There are some windows components with critical bugs that are updated trough the store like HEIF codecs.
      • fabioborellini 5y ago
        Is Windows 10 about to receive any requires updates?
    • WorldMaker 5y ago
      And any Windows 10 now with an up-to-date "App Installer" package installed, which I believe is slowly updating all the way back to the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607). (This is the same package that provides the Installer GUI for double-clicking MSIX packages and has always been Store deployed rather than "in box" in Windows 10.) On many Windows 10 machines without intentional store blocks just typing "winget" works now.
  • stinos 5y ago
    I was more thinking from a usability point of view, available packages etc. But from the other comments I learned winget is in Windows 10 already so tried it and it doesn't feel that much faster on a couple of things (ran some searches under Measure-Command and for finding 7zip for example the best case was twice as fast, but hit that only once, other attempts took roughly 3 seconds just like Find-Package). But whereas Find-Package returns only one result, winget returns 4 of them and again like 10 more from the store so that means figuring out which one. And winget search sysinternals doesn't return anything, whereas Find-Package has it. Again that's all from spending a minute with it and only for 2 packages, but just comparing based on this it seems it's not a super straightforward migration for me.