Winstall: Winget’s unofficial graphical user interface

If, as we mentioned, Winstall fills the gap left by Microsoft by not incorporating GUI into Winget. This package manager offers a very pleasant experience when installing programs. However, the fact of using only commands can make some users feel intimidated. Well, the latest version of Winstall incorporates its own API, in addition to other important improvements. For example, dedicated pages for each application, search for applications by tag, developer, or latest update date. Also, it incorporates icons and the selection of multiple versions of the same app. And everything is managed from the web.

What is the utility of Winstall?

If you’re not familiar with Winget and Winstall, then you might ask yourself this question. Surely, you would think that installing an app is as easy as clicking on it. In short, this app saves you these clicks. Also, it avoids having to go to every website to find the programs. In addition, the apps are downloaded from their official sites. Therefore, there is no danger of downloading viruses or Trojans. On the other hand, it is necessary to have Winget installed, as we show you here. As we saw, in order to install a program, it is necessary to run a command in the terminal. What Winstall does is show the programs and automatically generate a script. Then, you just have to copy this command into a CMD or PowerShell. In addition, it is possible to select several apps at the same time.

Another way to use Winstall is to generate a .bat file. Once the app selection is done, click on the Download .bat option. Please ignore any warning signals from the browser, as the file is safe. Then, double-click on it and it will start the installation of the apps.

Conclusion

As noted, Winstall allows the use of a graphical interface with Winget. Now if you have no excuse to use this great package manager. From time to time, Microsoft surprises us with good innovations like this. Hopefully, over time, it will be polished up. But at the moment it looks very good. See you later!

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Installing Windows apps from the terminal is a simple method. Believe me!

Windows 10 has some options for installing several programs at once. That is, without having to go on the web one by one. In fact, here we talk about Chocolatey. Which is a great alternative package manager with many programs and graphical interface. On the other hand, there is also the option of Ninite. This tool allows you to install many popular apps with a single click. However, its catalog has not been updated recently. The other option is the Microsoft store. But it may not be the best choice as it lacks many popular apps.

Now, I think Winget is a better choice than these. Despite being in a preliminary state, it works very well. No matter that its use is limited to the terminal, it is still very simple to use.

How to use Winget to install apps in Windows 10

As mentioned above, the Windows Package Manager or Winget is in a preliminary state. It is also an open-source project hosted by GitHub. On the other hand, you need Windows 10 1709 or later to use it. Well, to start using it you must download the client from here. Please download the file with the extension .appxbundle

Then run it like any other Windows program. Click on Update to complete the installation.

From this point on, you can use CMD or PowerShell to install apps. To open a CMD, press the Win+R combination and type CMD:

To check the operation of the tool, from the Command Prompt execute the following command:

winget

To see the list of available programs, please execute the following command:

winget show

The list of available software is very extensive. And it’s likely to grow over time. You will find from text editors like Atom, Brackets, or Sublime Text. Additionally, messaging applications like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord. And there are also popular apps like roasting for popular apps of all kinds like Spotify, Zoom, qBittorrent, Filezilla, WinRar, Opera, Open VPN, VS Code, Dropbox, 7zip, etc. Once you get the program, just run the following command along with the name of the app, to install it. This time we will install qBittorrent.

winget install qbittorrent

Conclusion

Ultimately we have seen how to install Winget on Windows 10. Please note that the program is still in the preliminary phase. Therefore, some failures are expected. However, in my experience, I have had correct use. Perhaps, the only problem is that for now, it does not allow automatic program updates. But it is very likely that this function will be added in the future. All right, that’s it for now. Greetings!

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