I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • om1k@sopuli.xyz
    49·
    2 years ago

    Before switching to Linux I used to think: “Linux users really use the terminal to install apps?? So archaic”. Now I can’t be more grateful of being able to install everything from the terminal.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      Pamac on Manjaro is great even without using the terminal. Pretty simple and solid GUI everything considered

  • sep@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    Depending on the games you play. Steam on linux really works well. I have not had a dualboot windows partition for games in several years.
    There are some games with windows only drm/anticheat, that do not work. I just do not buy them. There are enough games that works well on linux that I do not care.

  • FOSS Is Fun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 years ago

    Windows actually has a package manager preinstalled.

    On any up-to-date Windows 10 and 11 computer that has the App Installer app installed (it should be preinstalled), you can use winget to manage your applications. Winget has the Microsoft Store and a community repository preconfigured and you can add additional sources, if you want.

    You can use it via a terminal:

    • Install a package: winget install Mozilla.Firefox
    • Update all applications on your computer: winget upgrade --all
    • Oscar@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Something i especially appreciate about winget us that it will “index” (or whatever you want to call it) software that was installed outside of it. For example if I install app XYZ through an .msi setup file, I can update it using winget.

      So it seems I can also use scoop or chocolatey to install new software and then keep managing them through winget.

  • JoshCodes@programming.dev
    5·
    2 years ago

    Best advice I ever got regarding Windows: delay updates for a few days. Sometimes Windows updates break the device, but if you’re part of the crowd that delays for a day or two, they might have fixed the issue by then.

    • allywilson@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      2 years ago

      I was using Winget, then I realised everything is user specific, so I went straight back to Chocolatey.

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I like chocolatey but my IT department called me one time asking me to please stop running so many powershell scripts 😅 like wtf you gave me local admin am I not allowed to use it? No one has complained about winget yet

  • b9chomps@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    I have a Windows install for some games and use WingetUI to install Software and keep my programs up to date. It’s a GUI for Winget, Scoop, Chocolatey, …