• Meron35@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Skip the proprietary ninite and just use a proper package manager, like chocolatey, scoop, or winget.

    Ninite relies on a private company to add popularly requested programs, and has an extremely small, often outdated repository of packages.

    If you must have a GUI, chocolatey has that as well.

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      29 days ago

      Or, I can just not use a program like chocolatey and just go one and done on ninite. Heaven forbid they only have apps on there to choose from that are popular and people want to install. I’ve never had issues with any of the programs being behind on version, but it isn’t like each program can’t check for newer versions of itself

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      28 days ago

      The great thing about ninite is how you can go there ahead of time and generate a single file, and when you’re done installing you just run that file. I suppose one could generate a batch script that installs stuff with some other package manager (you’d need to include install/update for it first, I remember reading about how Winget can come outdated with a broken version), but the issue with that is simply that ninite definitively exists and works reliably, while I don’t know any such service to generate install scripts.