João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always ...

At its Build 2020 conference, which had to be held as an online-only event this time around due to the coronavirus outbreak, Microsoft had a bunch of announcements to make, some of which include new ...

Most Windows users don’t pay much attention to how desktop programs are installed on their system. For years we’ve been trained to seek out a website, download an EXE or MSI file, and then click, ...

Microsoft has finally revealed a long requested feature; a Windows package manager called Winget that allows you to easily install applications from the command line. Commonly used in Linux to install ...

Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites ...

Nothing says sexy like I use a package manager to install apps instead of double-clicking boring executables. It just rolls off the tongue. But there is something fun about installing and updating ...

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In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...

When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called “source code,” as in you had to install everything from source. Eventually, package managers started showing up to make things ...