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Ive been using a third party installer for probably 15 years. It is very hard to beat ninite.com for installing everything at once on a new pc.

keyringlight 2y ago
I've seen a few 3rd party post windows install tweak/essential utility scripts that use winget now. A search there shows a number of results, but the main one (winget show mozilla.firefox) seems to be official. I've never really liked those scripts though as it seems easy for someone to divert it to something else and I doubt a lot of users audit it. Something that's been on my mind in terms of user reporting is while firefox puts a large emphasis on privacy, what proportion of the userbase conceal their user agent and disable/minimize telemetry
dns_snek 2y ago
If you use Windows, you should try Windows package manager (winget). It offers thousands of packages and makes Ninite obsolete if you're okay with using shell commands/scripts.
- birdman3131 2y ago
  How does that differ from chocolaty? And for that matter Action1 is likely better if I am doing this on a regular basis.
  - Krutonium 2y ago
    For one thing, it's built into windows from the apt-get-go; And honestly has a pretty extensive library; So you can just copy your setupPC.ps1 file and run it to install all your software, and also update any that's already installed. Honestly Microsoft's biggest miss is not having a GUI for it. (The Windows Store does act as a software source for it, but the primary software source is separate and much larger without the Windows Store overhang.) If they implemented 1. An Apt like interface (it's kinda not amazing as is) and 2. a GUI, it could see mass adoption overnight. As long as they don't fuck it up or be overbearing on who gets to be included. And no paid software should be listed by default; at least not without a trial and a warning that it's paid software.
    - dns_snek 2y ago
      It's not built into Windows, but I just learned that there's a 3rd party GUI that aggregates packages from winget, chocolatey, and other sources. https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI
chickenimprint 2y ago
Package managers will either download from Mozilla, as with winget, or they will officially distribute their own builds with a distributionId, which you can find here about:telemetry#environment-data-tab_partner. This is directed at predatory SEO sites that unofficially bundle Firefox installers with adware for example.

keyringlight 2y ago

I've seen a few 3rd party post windows install tweak/essential utility scripts that use winget now. A search there shows a number of results, but the main one (winget show mozilla.firefox) seems to be official. I've never really liked those scripts though as it seems easy for someone to divert it to something else and I doubt a lot of users audit it. Something that's been on my mind in terms of user reporting is while firefox puts a large emphasis on privacy, what proportion of the userbase conceal their user agent and disable/minimize telemetry

dns_snek 2y ago

If you use Windows, you should try Windows package manager (winget). It offers thousands of packages and makes Ninite obsolete if you're okay with using shell commands/scripts.

birdman3131 2y ago
How does that differ from chocolaty? And for that matter Action1 is likely better if I am doing this on a regular basis.
- Krutonium 2y ago
  For one thing, it's built into windows from the apt-get-go; And honestly has a pretty extensive library; So you can just copy your setupPC.ps1 file and run it to install all your software, and also update any that's already installed. Honestly Microsoft's biggest miss is not having a GUI for it. (The Windows Store does act as a software source for it, but the primary software source is separate and much larger without the Windows Store overhang.) If they implemented 1. An Apt like interface (it's kinda not amazing as is) and 2. a GUI, it could see mass adoption overnight. As long as they don't fuck it up or be overbearing on who gets to be included. And no paid software should be listed by default; at least not without a trial and a warning that it's paid software.
  - dns_snek 2y ago
    It's not built into Windows, but I just learned that there's a 3rd party GUI that aggregates packages from winget, chocolatey, and other sources. https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI

chickenimprint 2y ago

Package managers will either download from Mozilla, as with winget, or they will officially distribute their own builds with a distributionId, which you can find here about:telemetry#environment-data-tab_partner. This is directed at predatory SEO sites that unofficially bundle Firefox installers with adware for example.