I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • FOSS Is Fun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    2 years ago

    Windows actually has a package manager preinstalled.

    On any up-to-date Windows 10 and 11 computer that has the App Installer app installed (it should be preinstalled), you can use winget to manage your applications. Winget has the Microsoft Store and a community repository preconfigured and you can add additional sources, if you want.

    You can use it via a terminal:

    • Install a package: winget install Mozilla.Firefox
    • Update all applications on your computer: winget upgrade --all
    • Oscar@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Something i especially appreciate about winget us that it will “index” (or whatever you want to call it) software that was installed outside of it. For example if I install app XYZ through an .msi setup file, I can update it using winget.

      So it seems I can also use scoop or chocolatey to install new software and then keep managing them through winget.

  • sep@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    Depending on the games you play. Steam on linux really works well. I have not had a dualboot windows partition for games in several years.
    There are some games with windows only drm/anticheat, that do not work. I just do not buy them. There are enough games that works well on linux that I do not care.

  • MasterCelebrator@feddit.de
    123·
    2 years ago

    Well there is a lot to critizise on Windows, but to be honest i didnt have any Problems with Updates, crashes, installing Software and drivers or anything Else on Windows in years. Even upgrading from win 10 to 11 caused no issues. I do want to switch to Linux when the Hardware and Software i need is eventually supported, because i dont like all the privacy issues on Windows, but from a Performance and stability point of view i really cant complain about Windows at the Moment

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      2 years ago

      Idk, for me, and many others I know, windows update always caused shit. There were many times that windows has failed to update for me, and often the updates broke something in the process. Far more than they ever have on linux for me.

  • JoshCodes@programming.dev
    5·
    2 years ago

    Best advice I ever got regarding Windows: delay updates for a few days. Sometimes Windows updates break the device, but if you’re part of the crowd that delays for a day or two, they might have fixed the issue by then.