Winget is such a half-assed effort. Updating the terminal? Terminal shuts down and you need to open it and run the update again. Updating something else? Maybe it’ll change the binary location and not update the path, just for fun (happened twice with LLVM stuff for me). This update failed for some reason? Try to run update again only to be told not updates are available.

You want evem more shame here? They basically copy/pastef a solo dev effort called Appget back in 2020 after stinging the dev along about a possible Microsoft job.

Then, duting the annoucment of winget, they didnt even mentiom his app that it cloned entirely.

Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager

'We appreciated your input and insights'

The Register

Another link to the article the Dev recommends:

keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

The Day AppGet Died.

The story of how Microsoft embraced and then killed AppGet.

Keivan Beigi