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I mean, chocolatey can do that, too. https://boxstarter.org/ can even provision new computers.
If winget works for you that's awesome, I just don't get how it's better than chocolatey for this task.
How though?
Everything I see online indicates that to have chocolatey handle an app it needs to be installed BY chocolatey; and that the "fix" is to uninstall and reinstall.
If you install something with chocolatey and it's already installed it registers in chocolatey.
Ah, interesting. I'll look into that at some point.