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486 points ethanpil | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source

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ocdtrekkie ◴[25 Jun 25 01:38 UTC] No.44372923[source]▶

It'd be nice if they didn't recommend winget for installation though. winget is an egregious security risk that Microsoft has just like pretended follows even minimal security practices, despite just launching four years ago with no protection from bad actors whatsoever and then never implementing any improvements since.

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dale_huevo ◴[25 Jun 25 03:03 UTC] No.44373306[source]▶

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winget is just Windows developers' version of curl | bash. Yet another example of Microsoft copying Linux features.

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1. TiredOfLife ◴[25 Jun 25 11:33 UTC] No.44376065[source]▶

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Windows already has

irm <URL> | iex

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