I find it quite hard to find open source software for windows. In time i might switch to linux, but for now i am stuck with windows 10.
Is there some reliable place where you can search for open source software?
Or is it that devs usually just don’t bother with windows?
EDIT: everyone, thank you so much for your input! I will check it all out. Yes, of course windows is evil, and i hope/expect to switch to linux before windows 11 comes around, but i still need it for a few programs, unfortunately. Once these come with a linux version - which is in the works - i can make the switch. Degoogling/demicrosofting is a process and i’m working on it.
Have a great weekend and thank you for the time to answer my question.
Winget… literally just acts as an installer downloader. Scoop and Chocolatey actually maintain repositories.
Not to mention Scoop offers a lot more Unix tools that winget won’t. Also it stores everything cleanly in a single folder in your %userprofile% and never requires admin privileges.
Also, winget serves more proprietary software than FOSS, which is something OP cares about.
And creates huge fucking issues by not using the actual installers and doing user installs in many, many instances. Winget just works, which was my entire point.
And I’ve seen little to no important FOSS projects that weren’t available from winget, which you’d know if you’d actually try it.