Windows Package Managers: From Chocolatey to Winget

00:00 Intro
00:55 Chocolatey (Install)
02:23 Finding Packages
03:04 Installing a Package
04:14 Installing Multiple Packages
06:12 Viewing Installed Packages
06:39 Upgrading Packages
07:08 Choco Search
08:02 Software Removal
08:37 Export the Configuration
10:41 Restoring Chocolatey Packages
11:21 Chocolatey GUI
13:51 Winget
14:08 Installing Winget
15:50 Getting to Grips With Winget
16:04 Winget Search
16:36 Winget Install
17:11 Winget Show
17:27 Winget List
17:45 Winget Uninstall
18:06 Updating Winget Packages
18:34 Winget Export
19:42 Winget Import
20:34 A Graphical User Interface for Winget?
24:41 winstall
30:40 The End

Take the effort out of Windows software administration with a package manager. Whether its installing and updating apps, removing them, or simply keeping a check on what's residing on your computer, a package manager can help significantly. Indeed, if you've ever used Linux, you're probably already familiar with how useful such a tool can be.

In this video we'll take a look at two options for Windows: Chocolatey and Winget. After covering how to use each of them from the command line, we'll see what graphical solutions exist to ease the task even further.

By the end of the video, not only should you be aware of the main features of each system, but you'll hopefully have decided how best to put one (or even both) of them to work on your Windows machine.

Website links:

Chocolatey

Winget

Windows Package Manager Insiders Program

Create a Microsoft Account

Winget GitHub Releases

winstall

winstall Github

Additional credits:

[robertmaxa]

Very informative. I learned something. I'm glad Windows decided to adopt a package manager, now, you don't necessarily need a web browser to download an app. Thank you.

[briankgarland]

Good video. But a suggestion...
If someone is comfortable enough with using a computer to be interested in package managers, they most likely don't need instruction on how to cut and paste from Notepad (and other such trivial steps).

[sidneyking]

@ByteMyPi I must say, that is an interesting way of installing software via command prompt. One concern I have is that some software comes with bloatware or even malware. Is the community building these install packages? I am trying to get a better understanding of how the software is installed and not adding bloatware or getting malware if I select the "all" option install. Thank you for creating these interesting videos. looking forward to your reply.

[jujimufi]

Is there a flag to prevent chocolatey from creating a desktop shortcut?

[samuelitooooo]

Wow, I wish I knew about this before I, uh, started the effort to move away from Windows and towards Linux. 😅

Is it worth uninstalling the apps I installed manually* to reinstall them with one of these package managers?
*assuming I'm okay with starting over and my docs are backed up