Is Chocolatey for Windows a good package manager? It sure is

>>61257801
its shit

>>61257930
Can you elaborate on that?

>>61257801
It's definitely worse than homebrew or anything on Linux, but it might be suitable for Windows. I don't see the point, if you want a developer environment on Windows use WSL, and if you want a package manager for userland Windows use the Powershell package manager.

>>61257967
>Powershell package manager.
Does it have 5000 packages?

>>61257981
Over 80,000 according to their website. I think a lot of them are developer libraries and stuff, but if you're using Windows you're probably relying on .NET.
https://www.nuget.org/packages

>>61258013
I want a package manager for end user programs, not much for dev libraries. I couldn't find a lot of software there that I could on chocolatey

>>61257940
it's faster to open a browser, go to the site & install with an exe

>>61258065
Yeah I think Chocolatey is more for that purpose. I think it's a bit of a "round peg in a square hole" solution, a centralized package manager really doesn't work well with most Windows applications. There's scoop, which is I think based on homebrew. Chocolatey is probably going to have the best availability.

>>61258090
This is very true though, Windows just doesn't lend itself to this kind of automation.

>>61257801
Chocolatey, and in turn similar products for Windows really come into their own when used as part of automated deployment, for the average user on a single computer, it's probably not as much a time saver -- it does have a GUI available though, so it does allow you to have a centralised place to get programs that you need.

>>61257801
NIGGERSSSSSS

>>61258414
>>>/pol/
also consider >>>/noose/

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>>61258096
Centralized package management could work, if people would use WiX to build MSIs instead of using whatever the fuck proprietary installer they're stuck on since the 90s.

>>61260083
Kek. But the guy in pic worked literally for the Rothschilds

>>61257801
It's alright I guess, I do worry about malware though, because I can't be arsed to pay for a fucking package manager.