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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And Firefox, git, Dia, gimp, etc...

Proprietary OS's like Windows and macOS lack package managers too that tools like chocolatey and homebrew provide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Dia and gimp are ok, but they’re still quite behind the curve. I love floss and wouldn’t use the closed alternatives, but we got to know where we stand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

git was created because a proprietary VCS was being a dick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There were many.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There's perforce

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was going to say git butler, which wraps git, but actually looks like that's gone open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The ones I've seen in the wild are pvcs and ccc/harvest, but there are others. I think they usually try to brand it as part of a larger end-to-end SDLC tool or change management, or it's built to work with a specific proprietary system like Autodesk vault.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Windows has WinGet now, which is a built in package manager. It might not be as good as most linux distro package managers, but it does exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago