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> When Debian's APT network package manager happened, that was pretty new and unusual. Imagine hearing about a package, typing a shell command, and Debian proba
by antod 3y ago
> When Debian's APT network package manager happened, that was pretty new and unusual. Imagine hearing about a package, typing a shell command, and Debian probably had the package, and it was installing.
I think a lot of people who came to Linux later don't fully realise how revolutionary apt was back then.
I can still remember the pain of manually downloading rpms only to find it needed another one installed first or wasn't version compatible with something else etc.
- ilyt 3y agoWINDOWS STILL CAN'T DO THAT
- doubled112 3y agoWinget with a huge "sort of ish". They tried, I guess.
- lproven 3y agoNot very hard. I recently had to reinstall Win11. I don't use it, but I needed to keep it around. Windows Update does not update packages from the Windows Store, or vice versa. Aside from the dozens of external driver packages you need, and even using Ninite to get a basic set of working apps, you still need 2 totally separate tools to update Windows. It says a lot about how bad Linux on the desktop still is today that some poor misled fools still think that Win11 plus WSL2 is a better Linux than Linux.
- badsectoracula 3y agoI've been on Windows 10 (because i use Linux as my main OS in recent years and only boot Windows once every few months), so i don't know the latest details. Can Windows install the Visual C++ runtimes yet?
- throw0101b 3y agoThird-party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolatey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolatey
- doubled112 3y agoChocolatey is great but has its own pile of quirks.
- lenkite 3y agoIt certainly can. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/