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I find it quite hard to find open source software for windows. In time i might switch to linux, but for now i am stuck with windows 10.

Is there some reliable place where you can search for open source software?

Or is it that devs usually just don't bother with windows?

EDIT: everyone, thank you so much for your input! I will check it all out. Yes, of course windows is evil, and i hope/expect to switch to linux before windows 11 comes around, but i still need it for a few programs, unfortunately. Once these come with a linux version - which is in the works - i can make the switch. Degoogling/demicrosofting is a process and i'm working on it.

Have a great weekend and thank you for the time to answer my question.

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[-] fiveoar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago

Choco is pretty good but it does have less packages than say, brew.

As someone who has packaged for Mac's with brew and RPMs and debs on Linux, packaging for windows is a total pain. Choco uses nuget 2 for self hosted repos which means you need to run a server for your packages, which there are things like the PPAs for Linux and Brew uses GitHub releases so you don't need to host anything yourself to provide binaries.

This is also on top of windows needing extra work to develop for, because windows filesystem works differently enough to need code specially for windows. All of this means that windows users suffer on the open source software front.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

I feel like everyone moved from chocolatey to winget now that Windows has an official package manager.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago
[-] Beryl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago
[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

is it that surprising that a third party does something better than microsoft?

[-] clegko@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

A little bit, because you won't explain HOW it works better...

[-] Beryl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

It wouldn't necessarily be surprising, but I've used both and I honestly couldn't say which one I prefer. That's why I hoped you would elaborate.

Not really, but it would still be more helpful to explain how it's better.

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