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7y

I will never fully understand why some people think command line package managers are "more complicated" than searching for and downloading software through the web browser.

I feel like the only reason why they think this is because the command line is not a user-friendly tool to them. All of my friends on Discord use Windows, and after showing them what a fantastic tool the Chocolatey package manager is, they don't want to have anything to do with it, because it involves entering commands.

I give up. If they don't want to use this amazing tool, that's their loss, not mine. I will just continue to run

> choco upgrade outdated -y

and update all of my programs with a single command, while they have to download installers and manually go through the setups.

rant

package managers are awesome

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  • 0
    7y
    Too late to edit: The command is supposed to be
    > choco upgrade all -y
  • 1
    7y
    Well tbf I love apt-get (I know it's outdated, fight me...), but I usually still have to google/DDG which of the thousands of available packages I'm supposed to install to get shit working
  • 0
    7y
    @gathurian I feel arch distros handle package searching better, even though I have been a debian distro head for a much longer time, especially if you have something like yaourt, where it gives you all options available with a searchterm
  • 0
    7y
    I also agree with @RantSomeWhere - windows sadly has no actual equivalent to linux package managers and usually are also quite slowly updated or maintained..
  • 0
    7y
    @RantSomeWhere I still feel they're better than nothing though.
  • 0
    7y
    @JoshBent What do you mean? You can get that with apt-cache search I believe?
  • 0
    7y
    @gathurian not as good as yaourt has it imho
  • 0
    7y
    @JoshBent Looking good, but I just can't seem to get into Arch-based distros somehow...
  • 0
    7y
    @gathurian try antergos, it makes things much easier
  • 1
    7y
    @JoshBent I already tried Antergos, Manjaro and even gave a Solus a try. But in the end, Debian keeps calling me home...
    Maybe I'll make the jump if I need bleeding edge technology at all times. However, I kinda miss something like the AUR in Debian. Or the ArchWiki
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