Is this something everyone should know to do? Or just style points for programmers?
using winget is a much safer and faster way to install new software. yes command prompt seems intimidating but itโs super easy, you donโt need 1337 hack0rz skillz to use it
At the moment i like choco more than winget, so winget is now the tool to install choco???
winget uses official repos, choco uses its own community-maintained repo.
I write at the moment, because the itโs good that microsoft finally has a package manager. But even though choco is community maintained, itโs quite good and has a lot things microsoft not yet has. But what annoys me the most with winget ist, that the package names outside of the store packages have horrible names. But you are correct, official is better.
You donโt have to know it, but itโs a good thing to know!
Itโs actually easier than the other way once you learn how to use it (looking through search results to make sure itโs the official link, clicking through installers, having to think about updates, etc. vs. just opening a terminal and typing winget install whatever).
But the terminal intimidates people. So I expect this will mainly be used as an optional โtech tipโ sort of thing.
More like sysadmins not programmers. Iโve met plenty of programmers that write brilliant code, but donโt know how to manage computers very well.
