Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software?
fiveoar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Choco is pretty good but it does have less packages than say, brew.
As someone who has packaged for Mac’s with brew and RPMs and debs on Linux, packaging for windows is a total pain. Choco uses nuget 2 for self hosted repos which means you need to run a server for your packages, which there are things like the PPAs for Linux and Brew uses GitHub releases so you don’t need to host anything yourself to provide binaries.
This is also on top of windows needing extra work to develop for, because windows filesystem works differently enough to need code specially for windows. All of this means that windows users suffer on the open source software front.
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I feel like everyone moved from chocolatey to winget now that Windows has an official package manager.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
no choco works better
Beryl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How so?
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
is it that surprising that a third party does something better than microsoft?