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Winget is the only thing keeping me sane when I have to use windows
What annoys me about the various forms of package management that exist on Windows nowadays is that while Microsoft started embracing package management they didn't bother adding proper infrastructure to enable it. So yes, we now can pull stuff from a global catalog on Windows, and it more or less keeps track what is installed - but for a lot of stuff in the back it's still just wrapping traditional Windows installers (with funny errors thrown through the package manager when things go wrong), and there's no tracking of installed files.
I can't just list a package to see all files it claims to own - or the other way round, query a random file to see which package it belongs to. I'm typically using package managers way more to query stuff than to install - and on Windows one important tool still just doesn't exist.
For real, it's sad how stuck on running an executable to install software windows is. Even msi might as well be an exe
I was using Winget, then I realised everything is user specific, so I went straight back to Chocolatey.
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