Gnu On Windows VS Windows Package Manager CLI

I’m honestly shocked no comment I’ve seen here has talked about ‘gnu on windows’ nor Windows Subsystem for Linux. I use both, because I prefer the windows environment but also like linux command lone. Source: about 1 year ago

Gnu on windows has you for the missing utils https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki. Source: over 1 year ago

You can get touch and other common utilities from GOW. Source: over 2 years ago

Now, this is the hardest bit, most of us are too poor to afford the latest and greatest tech and other new stuffs, but things which we can do, like installing a new program (Microsoft PowerToys, Windows Terminal and Windows Package Manager (Winget)) testing new softwares (Windows Insider Program, Apple Public Beta Program) are some ways to make us the early birds or early adopters without spending our precious... Source: about 1 year ago

Installing any single application: Microsoft Store and WinGet if you prefer something like apt-get. Source: about 1 year ago

2) Get winget from microsoft/winget-cli and install it manually then install Windows Terminal with it. The downside is no updates for winget itself unless you download a new version by hand. Source: about 1 year ago

This is a frontend for various Windows package managers, it does not do package management itself. You would have to investigate the specific package manager you want to use. In this case, it's using (among others) Winget which is Microsoft's package manager offering (which is fairly new, I think). Source: over 1 year ago

Consider using winget to keep the majority of your packages up-to-date. It's baked into Windows 11 and the most recent versions of Windows 10 (as far as I am aware of), it also has updating capabilities, etc. Source: over 1 year ago