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RougeEric@lemmy.zipOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I built a simple automatic app updater that uses WinGet
4·2 months agoYeah, no worries. Someone else pointed it out to me recently.
I feel there’s a place for both of these. This is lightweight and focused on updates, whereas UniGet is a full-fratured app. Both have their benefits IMHO.
RougeEric@lemmy.zipOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I built a simple automatic app updater that uses WinGet
2·2 months agoAh, interesting. I’ll look into that at some point.
RougeEric@lemmy.zipOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I built a simple automatic app updater that uses WinGet
3·2 months agoHow though?
Everything I see online indicates that to have chocolatey handle an app it needs to be installed BY chocolatey; and that the “fix” is to uninstall and reinstall.
RougeEric@lemmy.zipOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I built a simple automatic app updater that uses WinGet
3·2 months agoWinget can handle apps installed via other sources, including things like all the
Visual C++ Redistributablepackages and stuff I had previously installed using an installer.It may not seem like much, but it’s a massive advantage for managing multiple computers in my family.
RougeEric@lemmy.zipOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I built a simple automatic app updater that uses WinGet
2·2 months agoAt this point, things like O&O ShutUp10++ and how Microsoft have left a ton of overrides for their horrible advertising/tracking/ai crap in for businesses to use in large scale deployments means you can actually get a really decent experience in Windows 11… It’s just not accessible to most people.
I recently installed Everything Search and, Command Palette plugin someone made for it, and this little gem to fix my last remaining gripe with it: the lack of a good search feature.
RougeEric@lemmy.zipOPto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I built a simple automatic app updater that uses WinGet
5·2 months agoYeah. It’s kind of surprising how many actually good things people at Microsoft have put out there that are just not advertised at all (cough… Power Toys… cough).
Have you hard of our lord and savior, the metric system?


As a French person… Nobody gets turkey. Capon, yes, though it’s become too expensive so most people go for chicken.