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I realize you asked sarcastically, but as of relatively recently WinGet is shipped by default with the latest versions of Windows 10 and in Windows 11. [1]

But why is being installed by default important?

[1] https://www.petergirnus.com/blog/how-to-use-windows-package-...

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It's an adoption barrier.

I know very non-technical people who use Chocolatey for acquiring ffmpeg.

meh. it's not.

If you are convincing people to run commands to install packages:

- they care about trust, they will already have their package manager from the ecosystem they trust (which should be msys+pacman on windows, btw)

- they couldn't care less and will trust your `curl | bash` or `Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://hacker.com/totallysafe.exe`

on both cases, not having a default package manager shipped caused zero adoption attrition, I mean, besides the attrition of needing a non-standard package to begin with.

IMHO it is though. I have a windows VM I rarely use and tried using a package manager at some point, but end up not succeeding until winget was part of the system and was a no-brainer.

Too many possibilities made me choose none.

It was only partially sarcastic (yeah that didn't communicate at all, bad habit on my end), I had googled them but didn't quite understand the winget situation at glance. Thanks for the answer, actually appreciated!

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