chocolatey is a godsend

Oh man, Chocolatey is fantastic.

Every other operating system has some sort of package manager. Linux has apt, yum, pacman, and others. Even macOS has brew. What does Windows have? Nothing. You have to painstakingly manually update every app that doesn’t support auto-updates. So, where does Chocolatey come in?

They advertise themselves as the missing package manager for Windows. And wow, do they deliver. The fantastic community behind Chocolatey maintains over 7,000 packages, updating them as new versions come out. They don’t slack on getting these packages updated, so don’t worry about being behind on versions. I cannot stress how much easier Chocolatey has made updating programs.

What other programs on Windows let you update everything with a simple command? I can install and uninstall with choco install/uninstall <package>, and with choco upgrade all, every program I’ve installed with Chocolatey will get upgraded according to the community packages.

If you hate updating things manually, PLEASE check out Chocolatey. This makes my life so much easier and brings one of my favorite features of Linux to my least favorite operating system.