Windows Package Manager (winget) Reviews

Zypper is a command line package manager that allows you to install, update, and remove packages. It can also manage repositories. Zypper behaves and works as a regular command line tool. It supports subcommands, arguments and options that can be used for specific tasks. Zypper has many advantages over graphical package managers. Zypper is a command-line tool that is easy to use and saves you time. Zypper actions are scriptable. Zypper can also be used on systems without graphical desktop environments. This makes Zypper suitable for remote machines and servers. To execute Zypper, simply type its name followed by a command. You can also choose from one or several global options by simply typing them before the command. Some commands require multiple arguments. Executing subcommands within the Zypper shell and using global Zypper options is not supported.

Aptitude is a Ncurses- and command-line-based front-end to many Apt libraries. These libraries are also used by Apt (the default Debian package manager). Aptitude is text-based, and can be run from a terminal. A flexible syntax to match packages in a mutt-like fashion. You can mark packages as "automatically installed" and "manually installed" to allow packages to be removed when they are no longer needed (feature also available in Apt since a few Debian releases). Preview of actions to be performed with different colors marking different actions. Interactively retrieve and display all available Debian packages' changelogs. Score-based dependency solver that is more suitable to interactive dependency resolution with additional hints such as "I don’t want this part of the answer but keep that other part for your next attempt." Apt's dependency solver, on the other hand, is optimized for quick solutions.