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minus-squareBartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThis is it exactly. When I was using Npp, Windows didn’t have anything resembling a package manager. Does it even really have one now?
minus-squareIrritableOcelot@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoI mean kinda. You have to use both WinGet and Scoop to cover all the use cases…
minus-squareTehPers@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThere’s also Chocolatey but I don’t know if that gets used anymore. When I first installed N++, none of these were a thing yet though. It was just the MSI installer.
minus-squareIrritableOcelot@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI would say chocolatey and scoop are pretty much interchangeable. I don’t remember why I landed on scoop. Agreed that until recently there have been no package managers on Windows whatsoever.
This is it exactly. When I was using Npp, Windows didn’t have anything resembling a package manager. Does it even really have one now?
I mean kinda. You have to use both WinGet and Scoop to cover all the use cases…
There’s also Chocolatey but I don’t know if that gets used anymore.
When I first installed N++, none of these were a thing yet though. It was just the MSI installer.
I would say chocolatey and scoop are pretty much interchangeable. I don’t remember why I landed on scoop. Agreed that until recently there have been no package managers on Windows whatsoever.