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- eveninghere ( @eveninghere@beehaw.org ) 39•9 months ago
How do people even find the legitimate sites for Win apps these days? I mostly can’t. Even the legitimate github repos occasionally link to Sourceforge wtf
- rbn ( @rbn@sopuli.xyz ) 17•9 months ago
I often take the link from the project’s Wikipedia page if it’s big enough to have one.
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 7•9 months ago
Also alternativeto.net
- eveninghere ( @eveninghere@beehaw.org ) 7•9 months ago
Well, actually, anybody can edit Wikipedia and the page updates immediately.
- rbn ( @rbn@sopuli.xyz ) 4•9 months ago
True but I’d hope that there’s still some review for the bigger projects. Of course, it’s possible that a malicious link is inserted right before I go there but it’s still more reliable than just chosing the first result on Google.
- SomeBoyo ( @SomeBoyo@feddit.de ) 16•9 months ago
winget maybe?
- Septimaeus ( @Septimaeus@infosec.pub ) 12•9 months ago
+1, also chocolatey
- blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months ago
Ninite is pretty great, too.
- pacoboyd ( @pacoboyd@lemm.ee ) 4•9 months ago
Chocolatey here.
- florge ( @florge@feddit.uk ) 5•9 months ago
Off topic, but how are you meant to pronounce winget? Win-get or wing-et?
- SomeBoyo ( @SomeBoyo@feddit.de ) 20•9 months ago
I would say win-get, since it’s a way for getting packages on windows
I’m glad I got most sites I download programs for memorized or have the programs already on my hard drive
- ccryx ( @ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•9 months ago
Sourceforge has stopped distributing adware installers again since they changed ownership a few years ago.
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.de ) 3•9 months ago
I don’t. I try to migrate over to Linux and the there is the Paketmanager which has a GUI. I guess you could do the same with the store?
- PoolloverNathan ( @PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ) English4•9 months ago
The Microsoft Store adds a lot of restrictions to their programs (example of Python’s problems).
- RecluseRamble ( @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 12•9 months ago
I am a regular Notepad++ user. Thanks, didn’t know about that copy cat and just reported as they requested.
- Atemu ( @Atemu@lemmy.ml ) 5•9 months ago
They should register a trade mark.
- Dymonika ( @Dymonika@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months ago
Interesting, and terrible of these impostors to do. Done! Now, where’s the Internet police to take this ten steps further?