Install All of Your Apps at Once With Windows 10's New Package Manager - Lifehacker

Nothing says sexy like I use a package manager to install apps instead of double-clicking boring executables.

Good news: Windows 10 has a brand-new package manager—or, at least, it will.

Microsoft is testing out the Windows Package Manager right now, and you can already use it to install a pretty good selection of apps.

As Microsoft describes, you have a few options for testing out the Windows Package Manager.

Otherwise, you can sign up for the specific Windows Package Manager Insider Program or install it yourself from GitHub—though you won’t get automatic updates if you take the latter route.

No amount of fixes suggested in the GitHub thread could get winget working for me, and I eventually resorted to just installing the GitHub version of the package manager so I could at least play around with it.

To start, you probably want to know all the things you can install via the Windows Package Manager.

Since this is a preview release of the Windows Package Manager, there are bound to be a few quirks.

And as this is a preview build, the package manager is missing critical features that you’d probably want from a more robust program