SwiftOnSecurityI highly endorse this for keeping your PC's software up to date.
https://patchmypc.com/home-updater
PatchMyPC is an enterprise solution provider so everything is validated, and home users get it for free for advertising and extra testing.
GothPanda@SwiftOnSecurity ooh, dang. That's a lot more things than ninite, even!
Yacha@SwiftOnSecurity I'd rather just do winget update
Fidget@yacha @SwiftOnSecurity I’d rather just do winget update but this is going on my parents computers as soon as I see them.
Ruben
Jargoggles@fidget @yacha @SwiftOnSecurity
And then whenever anything goes wrong on their computer ever again, they'll say it's probably because you installed this.
And then whenever anything goes wrong on their computer ever again, they'll say it's probably because you installed this.
NetSec Kahn 
@fidget @yacha @SwiftOnSecurity this is where I landed. Winget for me but for my grandfather-in-law this is a good idea.
TL Wright | A Bookish Life@SwiftOnSecurity One of my favorite pieces of software. It's the first thing I grab when I need to do a fresh install.
ShadowTux@SwiftOnSecurity Mostly I'm the command line tool guy but somehow on windows I tend to find my self on the GUI solutions so this has been quite nice there.
Becky@SwiftOnSecurity I’m usually wary AF of these ‘I’ll update things for you’ progs. Ever since my ram didn’t download like it said it would.
But? Since you endorse? It must be ok
Alan Miller @SwiftOnSecurity also somewhat scriptable and license allows business use even though the name says "Home".
Orin@SwiftOnSecurity I've been using that for a while. do you have a listing of tools / utilities that you recommend? Maybe something to go onto the website.
Ted Garrison@SwiftOnSecurity That name though.. it just screams "scam software"...
iam-py-test@SwiftOnSecurity I have been using that tool for a while, and it's nice.
Shame it's not libre software.
Shame it's not libre software.
Fritz Adalis@SwiftOnSecurity
I've been using sumo, winget, and choco. Sumo is great, but he's closing up shop next month.
I miss Secunia PSI.
rexi@SwiftOnSecurity
the only patch that really matters: move to verifiable #opensource software for all your machines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
the only patch that really matters: move to verifiable #opensource software for all your machines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Simonoid@SwiftOnSecurity I've been using it for years. It's wonderful and really "just works"
tycheIs there a reason to use this over Chocolatey?
Filet@tyche
AFAIK main difference will be that Chocolatey will not (for free) update SW that was not installed via Chocolatey.
AFAIK main difference will be that Chocolatey will not (for free) update SW that was not installed via Chocolatey.
Greg@SwiftOnSecurity Been using that for a couple of years. I even use the built in scheduler to do updates once a week on Windows here
Amogh 
@SwiftOnSecurity Looks synaptic to me :>
EINGFOAN 
@SwiftOnSecurity is there something similar for #pathching #macos as well? This is still hell (many apps are not available over #AppStore
Matze@eingfoan @SwiftOnSecurity Check out Latest: https://max.codes/latest/
It can’t update everything, but everything with the same mechanism (Sparkle).
@matze @SwiftOnSecurity tried it. worked!
MrSerLoL@SwiftOnSecurity …why does it look like CCleaner
tyil
xorly@SwiftOnSecurity When I have to use Windows I prefer scoop. No UAC issues, easy to revert to older versions and it's closest thing to real package managers seen on Linux.
Fabian Pimminger@SwiftOnSecurity why does it look like malware tho 🥲🥲🥲🥲
TylerH@SwiftOnSecurity from a corpo perspective I hate that it does not warn or allow you to defer as an update receiver.
Using an app that is on PatchMyPC's list? Sorry, it just closed on you!
Only way to prevent AFAIK is to just exclude certain PCs from the update list altogether for that app.
Tim SchofieldSecond this!
Cliff BarbierWhereas us Linux users get the same functionality daily for free from our repo managers. 😛