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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

This highlights how [1] compiling on windows and configuring a compiler and settings is a PITA and [2] Windows has no package manager.

Yes, yes, we understand. Maybe cry and beg daddy Windows harder and maybe they will be kind enough to condescend... I mean probably not.

Maybe if he White Knights and SIMPs harder Sempai will notice him.

[–] rtxn 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that they could've used pip. Even on Windows. https://pypi.org/project/sherlock-hunt/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Only if you have Python installed and know how to use command prompt

[–] neatchee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This used to be true but not anymore

Winget is still pretty young but very functional. And WingetUI is wonderful

And Chocolatey has been around for a long time as an unofficial Windows package manager

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah winget has some issues, but I regularly use it to just update everything it can recognize.

[–] neatchee 2 points 8 months ago

Yup! Especially now that there is WingetUI I always check there first when I want to install something new