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This is the sort of question that needs a blog post to answer, IMO.

I have not had enough time with any of these tools to speak to the pretty, but I can speak to the ugly. The chief issues with these tools on Windows are package management, overall speed, and community focus on not-Windows.

Package management is the worst, IMO, and it stems from Windows and the majority of it's 'software universe' being commercial. Software is expected to install on many editions of Windows; it is not common to see edition-specific packages for anything not otherwise edition-specific. Software can be packaged and installed many different ways, some of which do not support unattended installation. It's not always clear whether a package is installed at all. It's usually difficult to repackage software that doesn't work the way you want it to, and even if it's easy to do you probably can't redistribute the result.

So yeah, in general, package management is the ugly.




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