0points 3 days ago

> Also, if I’m not wrong, it’s only available as a CLI tool which makes it pretty useless for 95 percent of Windows users and for developers to distribute software with it.

Back in my day this would be seen as an exercise left for the user, and thus a new junior dev was born building a front end.

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consumer451 3 days ago

These comments led me to searching winget gui.

UniGetUI looks really cool.

https://github.com/marticliment/UniGetUI - 16.2k stars

dabockster 2 days ago

It is cool and I use it regularly. But keep in mind that it’s yet another one person OSS project and can bite the dust *at any time*.

If you have the ability to financially support them or contribute code somehow, do it.

consumer451 2 days ago

Total tangent, but I just snooped into your bio. Could you please list a few of the design blogs that you mention there?

WorldMaker 3 days ago

I've also been quickly impressed this week with the winget UI now provided inside Command Palette, the new PowerToy "Sherlock/Spotlight" search tool.