Why is Windows software advertising always so trashy? It's giving gas station magazine
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Hey kid theres a guy wearing a trench coat in the alleyway selling co-pilot AI software.
Junkie in the gutter groaning: βI can get you some clippy!β
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I thought it was a Fortnite ad at first glance.
I feel this one has a bit of a gambling site/slot machine thing going on. The green hue kinda reminds me of the tables and the golden light is the glistening money prizes.
And, you know, trusting another piece of software to manage your updates all at once on windows,β¦now thatβs what I call gambling.
Because target audience.
No, I don't think the audience at Target is much better /s
Tux's right eye being occluded by the guy's black hair, and his left eye being partly shaded into a more angular shape makes it look like he's giving an evil smirk.
Lol I was gonna comment that too!
Winget update --all
100% free? Could it have been 90% free? Or some other amount of free?
Freemium has an amount of free between 1% and 99%
ujust is a godlike name for a package management utility
Granted, but the winner in that regard is and forever will be pacman.
It's not a package manager tho, it's a script collection utility or whatever
To be fair they aliased/made their own recipe file for Universal Blue projects based off
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The "Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power" meme, showing two frames of Omni-Man from Invincible. Omni-Man has an image of Tux, the Linux penguin, superimposed over him in both.
In the first frame, he look out at a screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail, which reads "UPDATE ALL SOFTWARE AT ONCE! ONE CLICK! FAST & EASY! 100% FREE!", and a title which reads "Update All Software on Windows PC at Once | One-Click Method (Fast & Free)."
In the second frame, he says "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power".
yo thank you i completely forgot about that, may i put this into the alt text of the post?
Absolutely!
yay :)
My father, an IT professional since before there was IT, once said to me "One of the reasons why I like Norton is it will check if there's updates to my software for me."
Oh you bitter winter child.
winget
The real mvp comes from one of the best website hosts in the world. If you have to be on windows and especially if you're setting up a fresh install; use www.ninite.com.
It bypasses all the prompts and warnings and opt in\out prompts of a ton of common programs you'd want to install on your PC into one single and quick install. You check mark each of the programs you want from the list (web browsers, anti virus, video players, etc) and it hands you over a single install file to take care of automatically installing them all at once. Best website their is if you're a windows user. I've counted on this gem for well over a decade. I only have one PC left that I keep windows on now, and I'll be swapping that over to Linux as well by November this year when windows 10 stops getting security updates.
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.
I mean, isn't that how package managers work too? Just relying on the default repo of each one, since most users won't work with new sources.
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sudo pacman -
Why would you use that? It's not Foss, has an ugly name and it requires root to run?
I don't know why I see this shitty thing being recommended by so many, the service is just bad..
There are others which are better for windows, that are Foss and you can modify them quite easily. I tweeked scoop as an internal company software center, the software repo is managed via git and it was so easy to do that.
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sudo zypper dup
sudo flatpak update
Unfortunately two commands. I COULD make it a shell script so one use of sudo covers both the zypper and flatpak, and auto-accept the nvidia drivers and whatever. But it just doesn't seem necessary.
PS: Used to be sudo emerge -(some flags) @world. I should go back to that actually. Gentoo was awesome.
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Flatpak , apt , snap, appimages ,dpkg..... its not all single click after all...
On bazzite itβs βujust updateβ
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Scoop does that in open source. And i think chocolatey is FOSS too? (though has a paid tier) That one has a GUI even.
sudo -- sh -c 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y; apt-get full-upgrade -y; apt-get autoremove -y; apt-get autoclean -y'
sudo pacman -Syu
and the 2 hours of troubleshooting to find out why you status bar doesnt work anymore
my favorite activity is reminding myself to run grub-mkconfig
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i usually go with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autopurge && flatpak upgrade if i'm on a deb distro, and topgrade on ublue distros
If all my software updates at once, how will I know which one broke everything?
(Okies, since others are doing comments with their 1 command to upgrade everything, I'll do mine too...)
pmm update ; pmm upgrade
(... Though I generally just upgrade per stratum as needed.)
Can confirm.
This is why I have a dual-boot.
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