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[–] poinck@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

How much can one trust this Ninite thing? Sounds like the thing I want for work for easier Windows client management.

[–] tehevilone@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

I've used Ninite for years on fresh installs for programs if I'm not doing enterprise stuff - all you do is pick which programs you want, it spits out an installer, and then you run it and it loads everything up, no sweat.

[–] lukalix98@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Ninite was a lifesaver each time I did a windows fresh install, until recently, but I think everyone knows what happened. My point is I never ran into any problems with Ninite and it saved me a lot of time back in the day.

edit: typo

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

until recently, but I think everyone knows what happened

What? I don't, what happened? Did Ninite become sketchy?