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[–] 77 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Why is Windows software advertising always so trashy? It's giving gas station magazine

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Hey kid theres a guy wearing a trench coat in the alleyway selling co-pilot AI software.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I feel this one has a bit of a gambling site/slot machine thing going on. The green hue kinda reminds me of the tables and the golden light is the glistening money prizes.

    And, you know, trusting another piece of software to manage your updates all at once on windows,…now that’s what I call gambling.

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  • [–] 59 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Tux's right eye being occluded by the guy's black hair, and his left eye being partly shaded into a more angular shape makes it look like he's giving an evil smirk.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    winget upgrade --all --include-unknown for ALL(TM)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    From my experience if it requires this it was installed through a different method and is already being auto updated and when you run that it just fails and still shows up in the list, your experience may vary but you can solve that by uninstalling it and installing it through winget if you really care enough to uninstall it

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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    ujust is a godlike name for a package management utility

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    100% free? Could it have been 90% free? Or some other amount of free?

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    TranscriptionThe "Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power" meme, showing two frames of Omni-Man from Invincible. Omni-Man has an image of Tux, the Linux penguin, superimposed over him in both.

    In the first frame, he look out at a screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail, which reads "UPDATE ALL SOFTWARE AT ONCE! ONE CLICK! FAST & EASY! 100% FREE!", and a title which reads "Update All Software on Windows PC at Once | One-Click Method (Fast & Free)."

    In the second frame, he says "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power".

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    The real mvp comes from one of the best website hosts in the world. If you have to be on windows and especially if you're setting up a fresh install; use www.ninite.com.

    It bypasses all the prompts and warnings and opt in\out prompts of a ton of common programs you'd want to install on your PC into one single and quick install. You check mark each of the programs you want from the list (web browsers, anti virus, video players, etc) and it hands you over a single install file to take care of automatically installing them all at once. Best website their is if you're a windows user. I've counted on this gem for well over a decade. I only have one PC left that I keep windows on now, and I'll be swapping that over to Linux as well by November this year when windows 10 stops getting security updates.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Skip the proprietary ninite and just use a proper package manager, like chocolatey, scoop, or winget.

    Ninite relies on a private company to add popularly requested programs, and has an extremely small, often outdated repository of packages.

    If you must have a GUI, chocolatey has that as well.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Or, I can just not use a program like chocolatey and just go one and done on ninite. Heaven forbid they only have apps on there to choose from that are popular and people want to install. I've never had issues with any of the programs being behind on version, but it isn't like each program can't check for newer versions of itself

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The great thing about ninite is how you can go there ahead of time and generate a single file, and when you're done installing you just run that file. I suppose one could generate a batch script that installs stuff with some other package manager (you'd need to include install/update for it first, I remember reading about how Winget can come outdated with a broken version), but the issue with that is simply that ninite definitively exists and works reliably, while I don't know any such service to generate install scripts.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Chocolatey was literally mentioned, and it can do exactly this

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I had to dig through the website shoving paid services down my throat and found the script builder, is that what you mean? If yes, I can see it generate either a command using chocolatey, or a config file (to feed chocolatey?), which seems to require me to install chocolatey manually first.

    Looks like it doesn't meet the basic requirement of being a standalone script, and requires you to do extra setup first. I'm also very much not a fan of the website so far, but I can give it a pass since ninite being opinionated in the package choice is a subjective thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    sudo pacman -

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  • My father, an IT professional since before there was IT, once said to me "One of the reasons why I like Norton is it will check if there's updates to my software for me."

    Oh you bitter winter child.

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    Why would you use that? It's not Foss, has an ugly name and it requires root to run?

    I don't know why I see this shitty thing being recommended by so many, the service is just bad..

    There are others which are better for windows, that are Foss and you can modify them quite easily. I tweeked scoop as an internal company software center, the software repo is managed via git and it was so easy to do that.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Flatpak , apt , snap, appimages ,dpkg..... its not all single click after all...

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    sudo zypper dup

    sudo flatpak update

    Unfortunately two commands. I COULD make it a shell script so one use of sudo covers both the zypper and flatpak, and auto-accept the nvidia drivers and whatever. But it just doesn't seem necessary.

    PS: Used to be sudo emerge -(some flags) @world. I should go back to that actually. Gentoo was awesome.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If you only use one package manager, you only need to update one package manager :)

    I avoid flat and appimages like the plague

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    If all my software updates at once, how will I know which one broke everything?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    (Okies, since others are doing comments with their 1 command to upgrade everything, I'll do mine too...)

    pmm update ; pmm upgrade

    (... Though I generally just upgrade per stratum as needed.)

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    sudo -- sh -c 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y; apt-get full-upgrade -y; apt-get autoremove -y; apt-get autoclean -y'

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    sudo pacman -Syu

    and the 2 hours of troubleshooting to find out why you status bar doesnt work anymore

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Can confirm.

    This is why I have a dual-boot.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Winget is actually decent now

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Scoop does that in open source. And i think chocolatey is FOSS too? (though has a paid tier) That one has a GUI even.

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    [+] -19 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Still can’t run Fortnite though.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago*

    It actually runs fine. Fast loading. Full framerate. Zero glitching. Everything works as you jump off the battle bus.

    Then you get kicked from the server before you hit the ground.

    That's not a Linux problem.

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