While seasoned veterans of Windows and the Internet at large will have a reverence of sorts for installing things manually via .exe and .msi, the Microsoft Store is better than having nothing at all.

Looking for a tool to automate installing, configuring, upgrading and uninstalling software packages on Windows systems? Time to check out Chocolatey. I’ve administered both Windows and Linux systems ...

RuckZuck is a free Software Package Manager for Windows, designed to keep the Software on your System(s) up to date even if the Software was not installed with RuckZuck. RuckZuck provides an easy ...

I don’t know if you’ve paid attention, but installing apps on a PC can be a real pain. While the Microsoft Store is the ...

Unlike Windows, Linux has always enjoyed a variety of package managers. A Package Manager is a piece of software that lets you install other software on your operating system from the command line or ...

Homebrew is a free, open-source package manager for Linux and MacOS that simplifies the installation and management of software. Think of Homebrew as a command-line version of the App Store that ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...

Software package management is an essential skill for any system administrator working with Linux distributions such as CentOS and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Managing software efficiently ...

If you're trying out Linux—or completely switching over to it—after getting used to Windows or macOS, you're going to have to familiarize yourself with how software gets installed on this open source ...