NET, apt-get for Linux, Gems for Ruby, or npm for NodeJS (just to name a few), Chocolatey is a free, open-source platform that manages installation and removal of software packages maintained through a community-managed central library. Good news! There's a brilliant package manager for Windows called Chocolatey and it provides a means for you to automate the installation of your 3rd-party software on the Windows platform. I'm on my fifth install for 2016 and I'm likely to complete a few more in 2017. I'm a web developer and computer hobbyist that goes through OS-installs quite a bit for things such as for virtual machines, a personal web server, Boot Camp on my Mac, and running technical previews alongside my stable OS builds. Now, I'm sort of an edge-case user, though, so it's important to point out that most consumers don't actually have to deal with this but every few years (and that is being generous). So continues the masochistic PC OS re-install ritual I've completed so many times before and am destined to repeat ad infinitum. required to be installed in order to get my PC to the point where I can actually use it.
Second is installing the myriad of 3rd-party software such as browsers, text editors, media players, etc.
First, tackling driver updates so my video card isn't showing me a 2001-era screen resolution. Until I have to actually have to start installing 3rd-party software, that is.įinishing the Windows 10 install means two things happen in quick succession. This fresh Windows 10 installation is almost complete. The end of a marathon that started when I still had some of my Sunday afternoon ahead of me. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's 12:12 am on Monday morning and I've just accepted what feels like my 10th Microsoft EULA after fighting to re-install a fresh version of Windows 10 over my Windows Insider Program technical preview that I managed to keep running for the last 6 or so months.
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