lolcat
Rainbows and unicorns! (by busyloop)
winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface). (by microsoft)
| lolcat | winget-cli | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 283 | |
| 5,898 | 22,236 | |
| 2.3% | 1.2% | |
| 0.0 | 9.3 | |
| 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Ruby | C++ | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lolcat
Posts with mentions or reviews of lolcat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
- Busyloop/Lolcat: Rainbows and Unicorns
- Lolcat
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Kaboom.js 3000
I always got a kick out of lolcat's "versioning": https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/tags
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Proof of Concept: Local LLM to execute terminal comands (Here GPT-2)
More bonus points if also uses lolcat.
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Capture your users attention with style
This script uses the toilet and lolcat utils to generate messages that will grab your user’s attentionand the who util to find the tty and pts devices of logged-in users so it can send them said messages.
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
If you install lolcat first, you can also get some lsd into your terminal with
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how to look like you're hacking when someone walks in
you can also pipe cmatrix to lolcat for rainbowz!!
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nowplaying.sh: a simple script to show what’s playing on Plex on the command line
Ah. Those colors are actually from being piped into “lolcat” https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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lolcat without snap possible
Straight Python port of the Ruby version at https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/ but with 100% more fun, because, hey, it’s not Ruby. There are no external dependencies..
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Show me your DockerHub public images in your terminal
lolcat : "Rainbows and unicorns!"
winget-cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of winget-cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-19.
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Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows
GitHub
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Fresh W11 Install - Winget acting weird
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3832
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MS and Windows gets a lot of (well deserved) hate, but winget is just fantastic!
You're correct here, and that's exactly the reason Winget is a package manager, as dependency management is part of teh stable release since version 1.6.3133:
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Microsoft Intune Management Extensions update?
Currently, I'm troubleshooting an annoying issue on my shared devices that it's a hell to delete. See this ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3365
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
It's also on the official microsoft package manager (winget).
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
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How to update cURL
Winget install
- Script to update apps automaticaly with Winget
- Mass-archiving Reddit comment threads from a list of URLs
- 2 weird issue today
- Windows Terminal Preview 1.18 Release
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lolcat and winget-cli you can also consider the following projects:
kubecolor - colorizes kubectl output
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
cmatrix - Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
hollywood
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
sl - SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping
oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows
ubuntu-dev-machine-setup - Configure your Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 Desktop as a development workstation for DevOps or DevSecOps
qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client