Honestly surprised at the small number of subscribers, considering this video's quality. Before winget, I didn't really want to use a package manager on Windows as the others were unofficial. I imagine a lot of people thought the same.
Thanks for the words of encouragement, Drew! I feel the same way, and will likely switch once Winget has an update option. For now, I am using Winget at work (pre-installed on all our windows machines), and have been loving how easy it is to install software on demand when I work on staff computers.
choco info from regular user: I think choco has a wider functionality than just download and install. Choco has mass update that can run automatically (timed) Installed app list can be also exported, and ported from powershell or GUI Mass install option from exported or predefined list GUI can handle most of the functions and has good search function Can create alternate/local repository and repository redirect, for company or group use, the client side can be password protected and restricted to allow configuration only by admin, for force redirecting to alternate repository by default as example Remote (centralized) pushing updates and installs - like as company sw center - also works with ease In k8s/virtual environment can be a magic tool, as you can automate the sw installation with it Updates can be done from the softwares updater or choco Has a nice uninstall funcionality, sometimes it even works better for some reason - found few cases where it wasn't
I was forced to install Chocolatey a few weeks ago to get a particular piece of software. That was my first encounter with a windows package manager, but getting to the point of having that software installed had me jumping through so many hoops that I almost gave up (hoops being trying to get Chocolatey installed and then my actual wanted software after that). But finally I managed to get it done. I now find this video and had no idea that there were other options.
Hopefully you found this helpful. Winget had actually come a long way since this video, and is out of beta. I hope to do a follow up video on it and the new features.
@@Allied10 Yes, it was quite useful. Looking forward to the update video. If possible, when you do decide to make that video, I'd be curious to learn how to deal with package managers when one has already installed the available programs independently, eg. will the package manager just install a second installation of its own, or will it recognise that it is already installed and just integrate that knowledge for the next time you'd like to update via the package manager instead? etc.
@@nutbunny10 I've only experimented a little, but the latest version of Winget seems to detect if an app was installed previously (manually) and has the ability to update it just like any app that was installed directly with Winget.
Thanks a lot for the video! Extremely helpful 😀👍 Are there any problems with Chocolatey? Do I have to update all my software using only choco or I could also use in app update option? Any conflict there? Thanks.
Hey Yuriy! Glad it was helpful. You can certainly use Chocolatey to only update certain software as you see fit. It will show you which software is out of date (compared against it's repository), but you can select individual ones to update if you don't want to update them all. Using the app's built-in updater works just as well, but not every app has that feature. Some people also prefer that their apps don't update in the background.
Winget is quite easy, like I had GeForce experience app on my laptop , I went to the app but it had no update , but Winget showed a new version , when I went into the official website , I saw the same version as Winget was showing . I don't really play games on my laptop so it wasn't necessary but I update GeForce anyways . Quite nice imo.
Was looking for this because I just accidentally installed some bad app that was pretending to be something else. I cant for the life of me why its taken so long for windows to get with the program. They brought out an app store many years ago and it still didn't occur to them to bring a package manager into windows.
Chocolatey is going well for me. Since I don't like Unix based systems and know windows well enough to remove all the bloatware, windows 10 is my daily choice. But it was damn fine to update all of your apps with just one line of code on Linux.
Winget 1.0 just got released which actually has this feature now. ' Winget Upgrade --all ' will update all your packages in one go. You may want to launch the terminal as Administrator though, unless you love UAC prompts.
@@markstechtorials3095 Well after a couple weeks writing this comment I stopped using Chocolatey. The reason was that I didn't trust all the packages since anyone could create one and chocolatey itself started to feel like bloatware for some reason. I'm doing everything manually but I'll check your recommendation out.
choco+gui are hard to setup? i mean...i copied the command line, opened power shell, pasted, hit enter... didnt seem like a problem to me, their site even has a copy button for each command line you need to use to get both the app and gui installed... if its easy enough my parents could follow the directions and do it without me... thats far from hard. ninite has been around along time, its installers will update the apps when you run/re-run them, but i dont personally think of that quite the same way, if i want to change my options i have to grab another setup file... not quite the same.
Pretty much. It's one of my favorite features in Linux, so I'm happy to see Windows adopting it. Winget 1.0 was released this past week. My guess is that next Feature Update it will be included.
