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What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not)
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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For package management I've been really liking scoop.sh
Not everything in there is FOSS but scoop itself is! And you can install neovim, vscodium, bitwarden, Firefox, etc very easily.
How does it compare to chocolatey? Thanks.
it doesn't trigger UAC because the installation directory is different
Some items trigger UAC (installing tailscale, for example)
I love that everying lives in ~/scoop. It's well organized and somewhat portable (until you import the nonportable bucket)
One great thing about scoop is that downgrading an app is very easy. You can also manage multiple versions of a runtime, for example, you can install multiple Node.js versions and switch between them with
scoop resetcommand.It definitely looks like the first program that should be installed when doing a clean install of Windows!
I recently found out about winget, how is winget different from scoop? Apart from of course, the number of packages and that anyone can contribute to it.
Winget is from Microsoft for one (and already installed with Windows). It basically just downloads the regular windows installer and installs it like usual without the need to click user feedback prompts. Scoop is more of a package manager.
With winget, one nice thing is you can even update packages not installed with winget originally. You can see which apps on your computer have updates available with a single command.
It’s great when you’re updating someone else’s computer they haven’t updated random things in years (typical windows users).
Scoop essentially uses portable apps and everything is in your scoop folder which is great.
I use both. Scoop first and winget for everything else. I use winget to update Libreoffice on all our work computers (because the devs won’t work on auto updates).
I felt like winget was too limited. When I last used it it didn't support installing multiple apps at the same time. scoop feels much more like traditional *nix package management to me, which I like.