But will it have sudo, or would you run PowerShell as Administrator?
Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author here. I was being ironic :) I'm an equal-opportunities OS user. I have two Linux boxes (Slackware!), two Windows boxes, and an OS X laptop within arm's reach of my desk. I was just poking fun at the Year of Desktop Linux thing -- it's a bit of a meme/running joke in tech blogger circles.
The irony being that you weren't being ironic; mildly sarcastic instead.
Sarcasm is a form of irony.
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#213I think the article misses the point. It doesn't matter if the package manager is CLI or GUI-based, what matters is good UI and quality (+ price) of application packages.
Mobile stores (Google Play, Apple Store) are a good example of this... they host many apps & are easy to use. Who cares if you use keyboard, mouse or touch to get them.
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#214Any idea when its available for download for consumers?
Today. http://oneget.org/oneget.zip
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#215I think there is a huge missed opportunity here. I mean, it's good that Microsoft is finally adding functionality that went mainstream in the late 90's. But why don't just skip the flawed approach most of the current Linux distributions use? In my opinion they should have been looking at a more declaritive approach, such as the Nix package manager uses.
I will agree though that this oversight is not as bad as TFSVC. Where they were building a centralized version control system when the whole world was switching to decentralized VCSs.
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#216> While Windows and Mac users have to run graphical installers — you know, where you hit Next a few times and try to avoid installing bundled crapware — Linux users can just open up a command line and type sudo apt-get install vlc. Right. As if VLC on windows comes with crapware. As if apt-get [0] never asked cryptic messages [1]. [0] or yaourt or any other package manager [1] and it's more about the package than the…
There are a surprising number of malicious repackages of common FOSS utilities like VLC and 7zip i've seen non-expert Windows users install. It's actually not all that uncommon.
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#217I love it. Bring on "sudo apt-get install."
Somehow, folks have been led to think that the command line is a scary place, just for geeks, but it's so easy to lead someone through a slightly complex manual installation by just giving them a few commands to copy and paste into the terminal.
And as a somewhat casual user myself, I even find it easier to follow a command line installation than to wade through several pages of "open this window, click on this, click on that," especially when the instructions and the actual installer don't exactly agree due to revision divergence.
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#218Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#219I think there is a huge missed opportunity here. I mean, it's good that Microsoft is finally adding functionality that went mainstream in the late 90's. But why don't just skip the flawed approach most of the current Linux distributions use? In my opinion they should have been looking at a more declaritive approach, such as the Nix package manager uses. I will agree though that this oversight is not as bad as TFSVC.…
It's not the NixOS approach and it needs some work to make it more palatable, but they already ship DSC with PoSH/WMF 4, which goes some of the way.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the wonderful thing I can not do with my Android phone. Like uninstall the Samsung apps. Or have root. Or install my distro on it.
You can do all of that. It will void the guarantee, of course. Who would expect Samsung to support each and every peace of amateur software.
I can't. Its violation of DMCA probably. And requires exploiting of bugs and security vulnerabilities.