Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...

Homebrew is a macOS package manager that lets users install and manage UNIX tools and 3rd party software. Here's how to get started. Unlike most UNIX/Linux-based systems, macOS doesn't provide a ...

Linux isn't nearly as hard as you think it is. In fact, Linux has become one of the easiest desktop and server operating systems on the planet. How is that possible? For one thing, modern Linux ...

Finding a competent enough command line tool is not difficult. The default Windows tool is great, but at the end of the day, it cannot do everything. If you’re out looking for the best, chances are ...

The following are the various command-line tools that you can use to do various functions with Microsoft software update packages. This command-line tool helps you get help in the form of a dialog box ...

If you want a very efficient way to keep track of your task lists from the command line, Taskwarrior is the tool to use. I use several task management tools, with most in the form of either a desktop ...

While it may not always be the best choice in Windows, there are certain things you can only do from the command line. We've talked about a few command line essentials before, like using tracert to ...