Winget actually has quite a shitty history and you could put WinGet into the meme above. It’s basically a clone of an open source package manager called AppGet. Microsoft reached out to AppGet developer to hire him and make the tool official, but somewhere in the process ended up ghosting him for 6 months before suddenly releasing WinGet, copying most of AppGet features.
If we’re going to speculate why Microsoft did him dirty, the AppGet dev also made Sonarr (a popular “arr” tools) and someone at Microsoft probably killed the deal because they don’t want to be seen hiring the dev of a popular tool in piracy community.
I discovered winget (command in PowerShell) a couple of years ago, it’s pretty cool
Winget actually has quite a shitty history and you could put WinGet into the meme above. It’s basically a clone of an open source package manager called AppGet. Microsoft reached out to AppGet developer to hire him and make the tool official, but somewhere in the process ended up ghosting him for 6 months before suddenly releasing WinGet, copying most of AppGet features.
If we’re going to speculate why Microsoft did him dirty, the AppGet dev also made Sonarr (a popular “arr” tools) and someone at Microsoft probably killed the deal because they don’t want to be seen hiring the dev of a popular tool in piracy community.