SPICE-E BACoN (UDTQ#117) - Package Manager in Windows?
Happy Freya’s day, folks! Or according to some sources I found this morning, Freyja. Have we been spelling it wrong this whole time, or are there just too many old gods with similar names?
Hey, 117 is the Halo number! A good one to end on…
The Recap:
Yesterday’s question asked where you’d find the components that used to make up the “northbridge” part of a motherboard and 75% of you correctly chose that they’ve been integrated into the processor! Great job!
Also, you all seem to have really liked the coffee vs tea topic! I got nearly as many votes on the bonus poll as I did on the real one! Tea took an early lead, but the coffee crew came in and demolished the 28% of us that voted tea!
Click to view the explanation
In some older designs, motherboards would often have 2 sets of “chips” (which is where we got the term chipset.) The first was for high-speed applications, such as system memory and high-speed add-in card buses such as PCIe. The second was typically used for lower-speed IO, such as disk access, peripherals, and legacy add-in card buses. As speeds improved, though, the link to the high-speed chip (known as the northbridge, with the low-speed chip being the southbridge) became a bottleneck in high-performance machines, so these functions were moved directly onto CPUs to reduce latency and improve performance.
For more info on the term northbridge, check out PCMag’s Encyclopedia article on it:
Definition of Northbridge | PCMag
Or for more fundamentals on motherboards, check out this article right here on Spiceworks from our News & Insights team:
What Is a Motherboard? Definition, Components, and Functions - Spiceworks
Click to view yesterday's results
The Ramble:
Do you like non-tech trivia?
As many of you have hopefully heard by now, there’s something pretty cool in the works, and @Sean-Spiceworks (happy birthday, btw) didn’t say “Soontm” but he actually said “Soon” for real!
It’s got me thinking about where my daily rambles will go once SPICE-E BACoN is gone… It’s hard to believe that I’ve been doing this for nearly half a year already, but here we are on the 117th question! And I’m pretty sure I only missed one weekday!
So… When we do see the real Daily Challenge come back, does this just end, or do we take this format and use it for something else? What do y’all think?
I think I’d ideally like to see it become something akin to what my original vision for the UDTQ was, a community-run daily thread, similar to Spark!, with a rotating cast of poster, but perhaps with less of a tech focus, and more of a general conversation starter? Maybe we could have questions about movies, video games, and music? I dunno, I’m just thinking out loud at this point! 
The Real Question:
Today’s question comes to us via @Chris-Spiceworks , who shared a video of some tech tips including one that used the subject of today’s question! It’s something I’ve used quite a lot, but I don’t think I’ve ever done a question on it!
Which of the following is the official package manager in Windows 10/11?
- Brew
- Choco
- WinGet
- NoCAB
- I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more!
HINT: Just Wing it!
The Rest:
As always, if you have suggestions for future questions or want to help out with a full question, shoot me a DM or leave a comment below!
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it’s not spiced up yet! It lets me know you enjoy these and gives us both points, so why not?
