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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I know this is a Linux community and therefore we love to hate on Windows...

but for anyone that hasn't used Windows in a while, they actually finally implemented relatively decent package manager in the form of "winget". When you add the wonderful UniGetUI on top of it you get a pretty good experience.

It had issues early on with consistency but the last ~year or two has seen it get a ton of improvement. It's much more reliable than it used to be.

Obviously "it's about goddamn time" and it doesn't hold a candle to mature package manager like what's available on Linux.

But if you've not experienced it before, and are forced to use Windows sometimes, it's worth checking out.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I have a windows 10 install next to my Linux and I have to agree updates are awful. It might be windows 10 but 3 restarts for an update and the system runs like crap until the update installs. I removed a windows 11 install a while ago because I only used it to play 2 games and it might sit dormant for a few days or longer and when I got back into windows it was unusable until the updates finished. I am running 64GB of ddr4 and a 16 core amd ryzen 9 with a 16GB 9070xt. Hardware is not the issue in my opinion.

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  • Updates are painful on modern Windows, to me it feels like they haven't overhauled the updating system since the Windows 7 days.

    It's ridiculous that you have to restart just to update .NET and they take way too long. The major update from the last patchday took 20 minutes on my Ryzen 7 with 64GB RAM and gigabit internet - from downloading to installing and then doing three reboots.

    Fedora on the other hand recently had 153 updates for me and the whole process was done in 3 minutes, with only one reboot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Winget is really not that good. It's better than nothing, but scoop is much better and deals with autoupdating much better.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    winget on its own, yeah, I agree scoop is better. But toss UniGetUI at it and suddenly it's a real package manager.

    And UniGetUI supports multiple sources: winget, msstore, pip, .net tools, chocolatey, scoop, etc

    I do wish winget was more robust on it's own but I also appreciate the goal of getting the package handling right first and letting third parties handle the update automation, at least for now.

    I'm naively optimistic that after another 5 years baking it'll be closer to what I actually want

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