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2026-04-15 01:00 UTC

@KayOhtie @vozercozer Winget was tiny when I last used it years ago. I guess it makes sense that it's huge & unmoderated now. Maybe Microsoft is trying to replicate the authentic Windows experience of downloading weird software off of sketchy websites & hoping it's the right thing & that it doesn't give you malware.

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  • @KayOhtie@blimps.xyz 2026-04-15 01:05

    @jackemled @vozercozer Maybe, but I don't think it's exactly unmoderated -- just a side effect of the installer requirements not being as stringent I think. IIRC chocolatey is very one-to-one; you select a package, that must be all you receive from it. I think it was like, if you installed Audacity from winget (previously) it might install something else that you didn't get installing it from Chocolatey, and it was still technically the official installer because Audacity'd added that ad crap to uncheck during GUI install. But the policy on that might've changed so that they mandate it only install the software a user would expect based on the description shown in winget. (edited to clarify because I deleted stuff and left the subject to 'there' vague)

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