It says it’s going to update but instead of auto updating and restarting, it just downloads the installer and you have to execute it, set install location, give it admin rights etc.
The worse version of this is when accepting the box for “Update now?” just opens their homepage in a browser and you have to manually locate and download the installer.
All that hassle when you could just run pacman -Sy qbittorrent…
(I swear linux is not a cult and we especially do not sacrifice Microsoft developers every day to our three dieties Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Tux the Penguin.)
Windows has this to if you know about it and then take like 10 min to set it up. Winget will update apps for you in the background or you can use the version someone built to use a UI to set it up called UniGetUI. I use it and it updates everything for me with no interaction. Im not thrilled with windows, but im just pointing out that it exists.
It does, but it’s really not a good package manager especially compared to pacman. I have had it routinely break the path of some executables it updated, I always need to restart it after it closes the terminal when it updates it, and it sometimes just launches the updater of the app and you still need to click through the dialog boxes.
It is more convenient than having nothing, I guess, but it always takes much longer than a pacman update. And it sometimes fails for no apparent reason.
That being said, the person you’re replying to may end up having a nasty surprise if they keep doing pacman -Sy instead of pacman -Syu. That’s at least one problem that you probably wouldn’t have with Winget, admittedly.
It says it’s going to update but instead of auto updating and restarting, it just downloads the installer and you have to execute it, set install location, give it admin rights etc.
The worse version of this is when accepting the box for “Update now?” just opens their homepage in a browser and you have to manually locate and download the installer.
This gets the program on my blacklist.
All that hassle when you could just run pacman -Sy qbittorrent…
(I swear linux is not a cult and we especially do not sacrifice Microsoft developers every day to our three dieties Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Tux the Penguin.)
Change that into “executives” and it may become a good idea.
Also, extend that worldview! There’s nothing wrong with taking them from Oracle and other similar companies too.
Windows has this to if you know about it and then take like 10 min to set it up. Winget will update apps for you in the background or you can use the version someone built to use a UI to set it up called UniGetUI. I use it and it updates everything for me with no interaction. Im not thrilled with windows, but im just pointing out that it exists.
It does, but it’s really not a good package manager especially compared to pacman. I have had it routinely break the path of some executables it updated, I always need to restart it after it closes the terminal when it updates it, and it sometimes just launches the updater of the app and you still need to click through the dialog boxes.
It is more convenient than having nothing, I guess, but it always takes much longer than a pacman update. And it sometimes fails for no apparent reason.
That being said, the person you’re replying to may end up having a nasty surprise if they keep doing pacman -Sy instead of pacman -Syu. That’s at least one problem that you probably wouldn’t have with Winget, admittedly.