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Command Palette turned WinGet into something I actually want to use for installing apps

XDA·João Carrasqueira·19 days ago
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Published May 13, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always happy to talk about. Prior to joining XDA in 2021, he worked at Neowin: https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/jo%C3%A3o-carrasqueira/ WinGet is one of the best additions to Windows in a long time. For years, power users had been clamoring for a proper package manager along the lines of what Linux offers, and options did exist from third-parties, such as Chocolatey . But WinGet is built in, and because of that, it's very widely supported and has a ton of apps available. But not everyone wants to use the command line to install apps, so there's some demand for a way to access WinGet using a more typical GUI, leading to tools such as UniGetUI . But you don't need to search for third-party options to use WinGet in a more friendly way.…

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