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submitted 11 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate sources of the same software, can make searching for software on Google a dicey affair.

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 11 months ago

Winget and/or Chocolatey and/or Scoop

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago
[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago
[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah.

rant

What's ironic, is that so many years later (what's it been, 10 already?), Chocolatey's "inferior approach", even competing against now "Microsoft's own" Winget, ends up with more failed updates on the Winget team than the Choco team. Which just goes to show what everyone has been saying from the beginning: that the core problem is, and has always been, on the installer side, not so much on the package manager side.

At least Vista has solved the "DLL hell" problem, maybe in another 10 years some future Windows will have an installer experience similar to Linux from 10 years ago. Powertoys somewhat recently introduced a "what's using this file" tool... maybe that's a step in the right direction towards noticing the need for a CoW approach to open files, or is that just wishful thinking? 🙄

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