There is an official linux like package manager for windows called winget but its targeted at system administrators and not at the typical enduser.
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They are 15-years too late to try to get people on their store.
I remember when it first came out, you couldn’t even put normal programs on it. Only the new Metro apps…that flopped. Ah, how I had hoped at the time it would be like Linux’s repos, a one-stop-shop to update everything.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
This. They know it too. They embraced winget as natural consequence.