Instead of dowloading from Sourceforge (loaded with ads and its own devious 'installer'), CNET, Download, etc, there are no-crapware alternatives that offer more management tools as well (remembering your list of apps across machines, automated updates, discoverability):
Ninite: nice, simple, installer: just select apps and let the installer do it all for you.
AllMyApps: all the apps, no crapware (at least for now).
chocolatey: a command-line package manager for Windows
https://chocolatey.org/
https://ninite.com/
http://allmyapps.com/
Ninite is clean and great for managing deployment on multiple machines, although it offers a limited number of curated apps (but they tend to be very common).
AllMyApps has tons of apps and the most user-friendly. I could give that to my mum. Only had some minor issues sometimes when it fails to recognise versions to update. It will even recognise and update apps that were not installed through its manager.
Chocolatey has lots of packages and you can create your setup to make it easy to deploy across machines. It's getting more secure and the authors are putting a review process in place to guarantee quality.
I've used all three and they all offer something useful. All allow you to manage your own deployment across machines.
Ninite: nice, simple, installer: just select apps and let the installer do it all for you.
AllMyApps: all the apps, no crapware (at least for now).
chocolatey: a command-line package manager for Windows
https://chocolatey.org/
https://ninite.com/
http://allmyapps.com/
Ninite is clean and great for managing deployment on multiple machines, although it offers a limited number of curated apps (but they tend to be very common).
AllMyApps has tons of apps and the most user-friendly. I could give that to my mum. Only had some minor issues sometimes when it fails to recognise versions to update. It will even recognise and update apps that were not installed through its manager.
Chocolatey has lots of packages and you can create your setup to make it easy to deploy across machines. It's getting more secure and the authors are putting a review process in place to guarantee quality.
I've used all three and they all offer something useful. All allow you to manage your own deployment across machines.