The WinGet command, which taps into the Windows Package Manager, makes it a breeze to keep applications up to date in Windows 10 and 11. Here’s how to use it. For more than two years, I’ve been ...

Microsoft has finally revealed a long requested feature; a Windows package manager called Winget that allows you to easily install applications from the command line. Commonly used in Linux to install ...

Linux has spoiled me over the last 26 years concerning installing applications, as it has had a command-line package installation program (apt-get) since 1999. Apt-get made it incredibly easy to ...

Install your apps and config the way Linux users do.

In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...

Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites ...

Setting up a new Windows machine can be a nightmare. I've spent hours downloading and running installers on top of setting up Windows the right way. While there are ways to quickly remove bloatware ...

Winget, the Windows Package Manager, is a powerful tool for managing software installations via the command line, but it can sometimes fail to be recognized by your system. Here are several steps to ...

Windows 10's Winget package manager is an excellent tool for installing popular applications, but it only works from the command line. To make it easier to find apps and install them, third-party ...