How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux
How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux
The best way to get yt-dlp installed on your computer, including ffmpeg for media conversion.
I'm sure a lot of people on Lemmy can figure out package managers, but I wanted to try writing a guide more aimed at beginners that can be shared with people trying to figure out
yt-dlp. I only found one other guide like this outside of random Reddit threads and comments, and it was pretty long and technical.If you like this article, please consider following the site on Mastodon/Fedi, email, or RSS. It helps me get information like this out to a wider audience :)
For Windows, what made you decide on Chocolatey rather than winget/Windows Package Manager?
Not OP but since MS stole winget, i refuse to use it and use scoop and Chocolatey instead. They have more packages too.
I think it's still a net-positive.
After that author's post (from 2020) Microsoft acknowledged and apologized the bad way they went about it. (IIRC anyway.)
It's certainly a shitty situation for the author, with the PM opportunity at Microsoft not working out (reason unknown/not visible to us). The author can't invest as MS can into their project. The author could continue, but obviously, it's less "useful" now as a product, with a "better" alternative.
Having it be a Microsoft-maintained project gave and gives it a lot more impact and significance, both functionality-wise and public-/enterprise-wise. Having an official package manager like this is a very good thing.
And the author on the post you linked says as much in their post. They're not upset about anything else other than the communication in regards to the hiring process he was not that interested in anyway. That's not really "stealing". Just superseding. With an aside shitty-communication.
Nothing specific, just that Chocolately is what I've used the most over the years and seems to be pretty reliable.