Jan-Lukas Else

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Windows Package Manager

Published on 2020-05-19 in 🔗 Links

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I didn’t believe my eyes when I saw this: Windows has an official package manager now. The lack of a package manager was the thing that annoyed me most about Windows. That’s why I always used Chocolatey on Windows, but even that has room for improvement.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/

Tags: Windows

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