Post #392037

2026-02-14 01:37 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116065813717764638 People don’t like when I say the Microsoft Store is a very nice way to manage your apps/tools, but it does make your filesystem more tidy, and solves the problem of every app having their own idea of how updates should work. (Projects will continue to roll their own update systems and get it wrong. Refer to Notepad++ for a perfect example.)

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@MrDOS@hachyderm.io 2026-02-14 01:44

@kirb I still have the Windows 8 “it's only for ‘modern’” apps limitation stuck in my head, and I don't know how to fix that (except that I also don't really care because I nuked my last Windows partition back in autumn, RIP in pieces). I imagine there are lots of other folks in the same boat. I will also never trust any Microsoft-run store with actual money ever again after they've shuttered at least two and taken people's purchases with them, but that's neither here nor there when it comes to cost-free software.

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@voltagex@aus.social 2026-02-14 01:44

@kirb I don't get why they need to have another tool when winget should be deployed everywhere this store-cli is, but happy to be able to set up new systems faster, at least while I'm still on Windows.

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@Peetz0r@hsnl.social 2026-02-14 02:12

@kirb It's a good idea. That's why Apple built the App Store in 2008. And why Debian built APT in 1998.

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