/gentoo/ - Technology

Repositories: should be doable, I just have my doubts with the chain-of-certificates/paperwork method of signing that MSFT tends to employ

Package managers: Windows has one and its package format is mind-boggingly awful. You know if you've ever tried to decode one with Orca.

It's generally a good idea to have a packages or ports system, but I think that ultimately the community is too fragmented and MSFT too distrusted as a convicted monopolist to pull it off.

>>142
this just came to my mind

when i tried the app store in win8 it was already filled with garbage, junk and malware left and right

there were like a dozen programs with VLC icon

took me 5 minutes to NOPE

i don't think they will do any better if they tried with their "software repos" and "package manager"

it's not impossible. I used to use Ninite to mass-install crap without having to click "next" a hundred times and uncheck toolbars and shit.

tried npackd at about the same time, selection of packages wasn't great though

a quick google search turns up Chocolatey which I've never used but looks better

it would be nice for Windows to have a decent package manager, but I'll be surprised if it ever has anything as good as apt-get/others. probably the best all we can hope for is something like the Apple Store.

>>144

>like the Apple Store

I too think this might be the direction where they're going, and that's probably the sole reason and fear that made Valve to start pushing for the gaming on Linux.

>>144
APT isn't a package manager, it's a package handling utility

>>141
Have you never heard of https://chocolatey.org/