Winget: The Must-Have Thing You Didn't Know You Need 

Finally, Windows is getting a feature from the 90s!

4:42 RIP Krista's graphics design career, Wendell is bringin' the HEAT!

I wonder how long it will take before WINGET to start to include distracting adverts using ascii-art.

I'd love for you to do a deep-dive comparison on winget vs. existing package managers, i.e., chocolatey and scoop, both from a user perspective but also as a developer/software publisher.

As someone that's just started using Linux for a big project I started, with a great developer helping and guiding my path, I've been so impressed with how fast the experience of installing and updating things from the CLI is. Seeing this makes me happy!

Chocolatey? nm, you referenced it. I'm more inclined to keep using chocolatey over winget.

Like how Wendel just rolls with the food stained shirt. Keep the stereotype alive.

Can’t wait for WinGet to start slipstreaming telemetry into 3rd party apps.

The powertoys bit in the end made my jaw drop, didn't know that was part of this and was mostly on the fence about switching to it from chocolatey

Wendell is such a chad. Stain on his shirt before recording a vid for RU-vid, he doesn't give a shit! Badass.

The only thing life life changing is how the heck do I get that flux capacitor!!!??? Link please!

How long till someone makes a usless antivirus or a monitoring app a required dependency for all programs in winget....? Life has taught me that always something goes horribly wrong and things end having the opposite of the desired effect.

The 90's called, they want their cool shit back.

Great quick video Wendell!

TBH I like both ways of getting programs, sometimes trying to find the right Linux installer for your distro from a website can be a royal pain, if it isn't found in the package manager. On Windows it's a simple .exe that 9 times out of 10 will install and work fine. Having both options now is great though.

Nice would like to see more of this easy/ handy thinks. I remember but it dind't work at first then i forgot and tada know it works. Tryed it just now. Nice. So thanx Wendell

Love the Flux Capacitor on your desk :-) about time with windows, linux has had this since........ ummm..... so far back i cant remember lmao

"Finally, after suffering for the better part of a decade..." Windows has been an exercise in frustration for over 3 decades now.

I use scoop for portable apps, it shims the executables to scoop-shims path so that we can use things like ffmpeg like we use them in a unix-based OS. But anything that registers itself to the "Add or Remove Programs" should be installed from winget. So, I use both.

I've had the same background on my PC for years. That's awesome, haha.

I installed as soon as I heard of it. Not perfect yet, but I already love it

One dislike = one person actually likes the ads on crystaldiskmark 😂

One step closer to never side loading apps and having a walled garden

I use Ninite every time I reinstall windows. Its so handy. This is better though

Wow, Love this!!!

Great informative video. WinGet will certainly be useful to me. Here are my thoughts regarding your video and WinGet as you presented it: 1. Windows has not previously required a "package manager" because when you install a piece of software on Windows, you expect it to install any dependencies it needs itself. You install and it "just works". 2. Who is managing the WinGet repository? Because the ads you refer to are from the authors of the software themselves - why would they want to move to a system where they lose revenue? 3. To quote you "I don't think that people are actually trying to make computers better and easier to use". I agree. I think there are for two reasons for this - 1) Profit, B) Untrained/poorly trained developers. The disadvantage of an open system perhaps? 4. Windows users are not going to want to use command line. But I suspect WinGet is an underlying framework that other GUIs can leverage. 5. Be careful of getting trapped in a "walled garden" (i.e. you can only install what Microsoft says you can install).

Winget can actually uninstall Cortana, possibly the best feature of the program yet.

Where the installers are coming from for these programs, who keeps them up to date? What about all the options for third party junk you have to uncheck, or options to be selected during install?

Experimented with chocolatey in vm after Wendell's vid. VM host OS spotted virus and corrupted the vhd. Held off for a year and tried again. All worked well so I setup chocolatey on my daily driver system and it has been great. Saves a huge amount of time sourcing exe's from the web.

Amazing animations keep it up!

and here i thought we were going to talk about wingnuts. one of the best and most human serviceable fasteners

Running things elevated with Windows 10/11 is easy. When I want to run Windows Terminal as admin I simply bang the Windows key on my keyboard, type terminal and, before I hit Enter, hold down SHIFT+CTRL+ALT and press Enter, then you just click Yes on the UAC prompt (or press Left Arrow and Enter) and you're in elevated terminal land. It even works if you click on any app icons you have pinned to the Taskbar. Doesn't work with a double-click on shortcuts though.

Neat. I always used Ninite on fresh Windows installs.

6:52 So, it's like that Start menu search in Windows 7. You search for the name of the program, the program comes up almost instantly, and you hit enter. Not like Windows 8 or Windows 10 where you search for the program name, wait 10-15 seconds for any search results to come up, none of which will be what you're looking for, even if you're searching for something baked into Windows like Windows Updates. People say every other version of Windows sucks. Personally, I've been noticing a pretty steady downward trend since Windows 2000.

Great video!

Finally someone decided not to put a damned hyphen in the middle of the command name.

Two things: (1) Kind of a hacky workaround, but with a little PowerShell 101 you can actually install multiple programs in a "single" line of code with Winget, as you mentioned was a downside at 5:00. Syntax: *'crystaldiskmark','winrar','obs' | % {winget install $_ }* (2) This is in regards to your point on the Start menu at the end of the video -- though I'm sure you're tracking, it's actually incredibly easy to remove Bing search from Start via a simple registry key. That way, you can actually just search an application and press Enter to launch it. Overall, I found it drastically improved the search functionality without needing to install anything third party. Registry Key: *HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer* New Value (DWORD): *DisableSearchBoxSuggestions* Data: *1* PowerShell Syntax: *$BingSearch = 'Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer'* *if (!(Test-Path $BingSearch)) { New-Item $BingSearch -Force | Out-Null }* *Set-ItemProperty -Path $BingSearch -Name DisableSearchBoxSuggestions -Value 1* CMD One-Liner (that should also work in PowerShell): *reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer /v DisableSearchBoxSuggestions /t reg_dword /d 1*

Are the builds in the repo really old and out of date like on most Linux distros? Or have been compiled without options you need so you actually have to go and build from source anyway like on Linux? Presumably it will let you add additional repos like is often needed on Linux?

i laughed so hard when he mentioned the damn start search function loading a webpage instead of the app XD oh the struggles!

this software used to be appget and got "embraced" by microsoft just google "The Day AppGet Died." for the sad saga

Holy SHIT. I've wanted this since I installed Debian and used apt-get for the first time in the late nineties. Finally!

I'd say it's a "windows store CLI"... But I kinda like it, been using it for the last month or two...

Instead of Powertoys Run, use ueli. Despite being an Electron app, it's 10x faster, has wide variety of integrations, and has very intelligent search and hotkeys. Highly customizable in every way, for example i use "+" as a prefix for duckduckgo searches. You can also enable OS command integration, so you just type "sh" and it will probably suggest "Shut down" and this is what keeps my sanity as a developer using Windows in 2021.

THANK YOU

Is the flux capacitor integrated with your vision of Windows. Winget what a feature.

So what happens for programs that include options you normally want to unchecked when installing. E.g. you don't want to install Google toolbar. Will it automatically install the crapware with the program or not

Winget comes installed out of the box in the Windows 11 dev build. I use 'winget list' and it shows all the installed apps, even if not downloaded off winget

you got my attention at life changing.

Hey Wendell do you know about Windows 10 AME (Ameliorated) It comes with manual control of windows-updates and choco. And bunch of other nice things like no telementry/ms-edge/win-defender. Try it :)

I use Ketarin for all my packages and combine it into a custom easy2boot usb tech kit I can even create custom install scripts

Excellent.

Are you able to run a query to find what's available and correct syntax?

You've got some gravy on your shirt Wendell. 😄😄😄😄

Definitely, it has also help me find other programs like openJDK, mpv.net and qbit torrent enhanced

-is there a way instead of using install to use download in order to install the program later with your own options instead the default ones -can you specify installation path this way?

This is great but is there any real advantage over chocolatey?

5:20 Yes Wendel, Linux is catching upto Choclatey! :D

0:18 the early reason to LIKE this video

Man the start searching used to be great. Got so bad that I just use run and remember most of the names of the programs I want to run.

This is crazy cool

winstall.app is a neat little site which allows you to search for the applications you can install with winget. You can even build a bundle with which you can copy and paste to a powershell command window or even download it as a ps1 script file.

Really enjoying toying with Windows 11. WSL2 with GUI and Docker CUDA support has been working well for me. There's still some hitches and bugs but it's going to be a great experience if they can fix it. So Microsoft embraced Linux, they extended it with WSL... What's the 3rd thing again?

What I actually need is that flux capacitor.

This sounds like Chocolatey on steroids and integrated with a framework (rather than the script framework).

Microsoft made VS Code and it's pretty good, so hopefully they can really nail it with WinGet

1, nobody's doing any testing. 2, everything is terrible. 3, a fresh install is good for your health and mental sanity. LOL, best description of Windows ever. They should put that on their homepage footnotes. Get Windows 10¹'²'³

Subscribed to your chanel!!!

there's 'winget import' (takes input file) for installing multiple packages at once if I'm reading this correctly...?

So how do you install the winget itself from command line? choco? I mean the whole video started with a winget intallation via GUI, is there really a point to continue watching?

Never heard of power toys thanks!

I wish I could winget winget right now.

Looks like someone got a little chocolatey on their shirt.

Winget install BrowserThatIsNotEdge How long for this to be the number one winget'ed install? Then how long for MS to add a prompt begging to use Edge and warnimg sbout chrome battery usage etc?

Cool so I started with Load.*.# now we have come full circle yay 2021

can I winget a desktop environment that doesn't have a compositor? because that would be a gamechanger. As in, it would change the game back to how it was before, which is better.

Why did I not get a notification for this?

Ayeee this is dope

Can you install wget with winget?

I'd give it a shot but like everybody else, chocolatey has been just fine for me and there's very little reason to switch... Especially when it "doesn't support basic things"

Can I install Linux with it and then delete windoze?

Can you tell it WHERE to install the program? I like to keep a clean and logical file system with programs in appropriately named folders, not all smooshed into one giant apps folder or under whatever stupid folder the installer wants it. I hate that Linux has all those folders created for specific things that must be used for those things and you can't really decide what you want your file and folder setup to look like.

Thanking you later

I might actually install Windows now.

Use chocolaty with the GUI plugin.

What do you mean when you said "after suffering for the better part of a decade"?

I can guarantee that the most popular winget command will be "winget Chrome". Especially if it lets you bypass Edge's whining about "oh come on bro, why don't you try Edge first, srsly, smh, omfg but I'm still your default browser, right ?" and all that drama.

i am afraid, you cannot save windoze. you must go on.

Good tool, that already exists somewhere, but I don't remember exactly... Lonix? Penguin? TempleOS? something like that.

Yeah I purged the involuntary weather widget faster than it could see a change in weather.

Q 1 : are these downloads from MS Windows Store ? Q 2 : if these are downloads from MS Store, are we able to bypass MS Account requirement ?

Is it just me or can you also not stop staring at the BBQ sauce stain on his shirt? :-)

windows life changing

A tad click-baity, but I'll allow it. For our small org, we keep a repository of said programs on the network of which most have baked-in "Check for Updates".

This feels like when Internet Explorer finally caught up to Firefox with tabbed browsing, Or when Microsoft added an app store onto Windows after Apple has had that for 10 years and Linux 20 years.. Why is it Microsoft genuinely thinks adding features their competitors have had for decades will really excite people and draw them in? (Bar Wendell of course) or is he now Windell???

Windows has been sleeping on this feature for far too long--before I was born, too long

chocolatey winget 😄 Time to 'get some'

I approve the DnB track that kicks the video off. Great choice.

So use to choco now.

6:46 You mean how the WIndows 8 start menu worked? Because I swear, everybody shits on Win8 primarily because of the start menu when that was actually one of the best things that OS had going for it. Search was instant. It just worked. You typed in the first few characters for a program and hit enter and it would just launch. And then we got Windows 10. :|

You can finally install minecraft with command line