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Comment by djsumdog | Hacker News Reader

So many things wrong with this list. Fish stuff in the ZSH section, the FreeBSD package manager in the Linux section, Cygwin is not a package manager (you still need apt-cyg or sage to install things in Cygwin without rerunning setup.exe) ...

Sometimes I see good stuff in these lists, but this author looked like they didn't even really try.

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The author clearly tried, there are something like 100 different links, and it's BS to suggest that they didn't because there are some errors.

>The author clearly tried

...to cram as many links as possible for the recognition without putting the effort into the curation that make these "Awesome" lists worth anything more than a Google search.

FWIW, I don't see what particularly differentiates setup.exe from apt-get, other than that the former is a GUI; people generally consider Synaptic to be a package management tool, even though it is a GUI, and it is very similar to Cygwin's setup.exe (which isn't like, overwriting everything with a new install: it manages the existing packages).

People fear setup.exe because it's confusing. I remember being very very scared to break the existing install every time I ran it.

The fact that easy_install even exists in that list...

Most authors of "awesome" lists just want the stars and GitHub "fame", they don't care about curation or quality.

It is sad that nobody else mentioned it or care about it.

I don't even know what most of these tools have to do with "sexiness" and find myself angry that people just enjoy. Is there any possible critics over there or is everything supposed to be considered as (awesome|cool|hip|sexy)?

Why not send a pull request with corrections?

There is cyg-get:

https://chocolatey.org/packages/cyg-get

why not just use babun?

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