Demitrius Nelon

Technically a breaking change, but I'd like to see if it would be OK to do this in a minor version increment. Let me know your thoughts. I really don't want to violate semantic versioning, but it might be worth it. Comment at: github.com/microsoft/wing…

@awakecoding @steskalj I don't want to be accused of favoritism. Asking a search engine or an agent should yield some results. Reach out to me privately, and I'll share a list of the ones I'm aware of. You can then choose for yourself which ones to investigate.

@DenelonMs @steskalj Got recommendations? Let's say I'd like not to add "develop an enterprise winget server" to my never ending list of side projects

🚀 Exciting news! Devolutions has acquired UniGetUI, the popular open-source tool for 📦 installing and updating software across WinGet, Chocolatey, PowerShell, and more from one place. Read more 👇 devolutions.net/blog/2026/03/u…

@advinst I'm not sure why the article suggests WinGet will become extinct. The community repository has well over 10,000 packages.

A useful breakdown for anyone managing Windows software deployments: advancedinstaller.com/best-alternati… #SoftwarePackaging #WindowsIT #PackageManagement

WinGet is not the only option for Windows package management, and depending on your environment, it might not even be the best one.

@xlr8harder Do you know which package identifier was used? Any chance you have the logs? `winget --info` shows where all used directories are. Append `--logs` to a winget command to open the WinGet log directory. `winget --logs` will do it without running another command.

winget install of powertoys fails with opaque numeric error code you're not hitting it out of the park here, Microsoft I didn't have high expectations and you've still failed to meet them

Using a windows machine for the first time in, uh... let's just say I'm old. What are the quality of life things I need? I know WSL is a thing. What else? I plan to do some local AI on the GPU.

@steskalj @awakecoding There are OSS and commercial options for hosting a WinGet REST source on premises.

@awakecoding Yes, Microsoft has documentation on building out one but it ties back to Azure github.com/microsoft/wing…

@EdTittel wsb.exe can help in these situations :)

Just had Sandbox lose network access. Couldn't stop the underlying VM process, so I rebooted. OK: it's now all back, all working. Odd. #WindowsInsiders #MVPbuzz

I just thought I would share this: UniGetUI enters its next chapter with Devolutions - Devolutions Blog: devolutions.net/blog/2026/03/u…

@michael_gorney I use sudo on Windows regularly :)

@michael_gorney learn.microsoft.com/windows/advanc…

Winget is a joke 😭 if I have to CLICK things with my MOUSE, then it's NOT a package manager!! Just install everything automatically! Is it that much to ask for??

@yito If you run `winget show <packageID>` on a few of them, you'll see they do.

Firefox って言語ごとにバイナリ違うの？ Winget のパッケージにずらずらと出てくるの、うーんって感じですけども

@dblohm7 @Microsoft It just got merged; it will be available in the next publishing run.

@DenelonMs @Microsoft github.com/microsoft/wing…

JFC @Microsoft, your own Sysinternals package on winget has been failing for the last week because of outdated package metadata, and it's just sitting there waiting for a reviewer. How is this acceptable?

Add your 👍to: github.com/microsoft/wing… if you're interested.

@jp_mikkers @shanselman The WinGet PowerShell modules emit structured data for automation scenarios. Unfortunately, they don't have full parity with the CLI or the COM APIs yet.

@shanselman winget really needs a machine readable (json) output mode, to avoid these parsing hacks.

exploring what a WinGet TUI would look like github.com/shanselman/win…

@PJ_Marcum @AscendOdyssey Perception is often confused with reality. Safe is a relative term. Everything in the community repository is scanned prior to submission. Hashes ensure the installer hasn't been modified prior to installation/upgrade.

Funny you said that. I’ve been thinking lately how everyone is touting WinGet as unsafe yet Linux has always used a package manager. So how is it safe on Linux but not on Windows? I really feel like WinGet is the future of app updates. Even if we have to pay for access to a trustworthy repository.

First Notepad++ and now 7-zip. This shows why we need to limit apps installed on corporate devices to only things with a valid business justification.

@wclifton968 @PJ_Marcum @AscendOdyssey You can use `winget show <package>` to see the metadata from the manifest for the arguments and architecture used by WinGet for the "best" installer. The manifests in the community repository do get static and dynamic analysis run on everything referenced.

@PJ_Marcum @AscendOdyssey If I am not mistaken, Winget does not use a centralised-source for 3rd party software, unlike APT, which sources pre-built software from a centralised set of servers (e.g. Ubuntu PPAs), & instead Winget automates the download & installation from the developers website? Not sure.

@NathanMcNulty We do have a few examples of "monikers" that are unique enough to get success. In this case `winget install nodejs` would lead to OpenJS.NodeJS for example. Given more than 11,000 packages in the community repository, lots of overlap exists for individual "word" searches.

@DenelonMs It's honestly sad we have to think about these things, and so I don't blame people for just doing what they expect to work without thinking about verifying it first :(

So, uhh, "winget install node" might not do what you think 😬 Someone pointed this out to me thinking it might be a name squatting type attack, lol. Doesn't look like it is on the surface, but be careful out there ;)

@Stephanevg Thanks :)

@DenelonMs You might find this interesting -> youtube.com/watch?v=vSYHH2… #winget #powershell #youtube

@plankers @DeepStorageNet Which pieces are missing? I expect we have issues filed for those.

@DeepStorageNet They started, with winget, but never went the rest of the way.

Why, after two decades, does Microsoft Windows not have a pluggable software patching system a la yum/apt, that can also help enforce cryptographic trust in the repositories, and give users and companies a single way to trigger updates on a machine?

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