If you are a Windows user, the process of downloading and installing an EXE or MSI file is like the back of our hand for us. It’s a method we have known for years but it’s tedious and time-consuming, right? Well, Microsoft has decided to simplify this by baking its own package manager in Windows 10.
Microsoft has built its own first-party repository for the package manager. It includes all popular Windows apps but a pull request lets you append new apps to the list. Also, you are certainly not restricted to the same. Microsoft will enable users to download apps from a third-party repository as well.
The ‘winget’ command-line utility supports a number of commands apart from install. You can use ‘winget search’ to look for an app, followed by ‘winget show’ to display all of the information for an app in your command line window. The header image shows off all of the supported commands.
If you are eager to test out the package installer in Windows, there are a couple of ways you can go about installing it on your computer.
