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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by antod on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:29PM (#37154125)
> When Debian's APT network package manager happened, that was pretty new and unusual. Imagine hearing about a package, typing a shell command, and Debian probably had the package, and it was installing.

I think a lot of people you came to Linux later don't fully realise how revolutionary apt was back then.

I can still remember the pain of manually downloading rpms only to find it needed another one installed first or wasn't version compatible with something else etc.

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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by ilyt on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @07:09PM (#37155090)
WINDOWS STILL CAN'T DO THAT
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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by doubled112 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:14PM (#37155586)
Winget with a huge "sort of ish".

They tried, I guess.

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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by lproven on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:55AM (#37161626)
Not very hard.

I recently had to reinstall Win11. I don't use it, but I needed to keep it around.

Windows Update does not update packages from the Windows Store, or vice versa.

Aside from the dozens of external driver packages you need, and even using Ninite to get a basic set of working apps, you still need 2 totally separate tools to update Windows.

It says a lot about how bad Linux on the desktop still is today that some poor misled fools still think that Win11 plus WSL2 is a better Linux than Linux.

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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by badsectoracula on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:21AM (#37163079)
I've been on Windows 10 (because i use Linux as my main OS in recent years and only boot Windows once every few months), so i don't know the latest details.

Can Windows install the Visual C++ runtimes yet?

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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by throw0101b on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:46AM (#37163466)
Third-party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolatey
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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by doubled112 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:49AM (#37163530)
Chocolatey is great but has its own pile of quirks.
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Re:Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Lin... by lenkite on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:17PM (#37178889)
It certainly can.

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/

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