I currently installed a dual boot Ubuntu and windows 8 and as a new guy to Linux I love all the features it has over windows, like for instances the terminal, which allows me to install programs in two sentences etc, so as I go back to windows 8 and begin installing the programs, I feel like its a burden.
My question is that, does cmd prompt allow for programs to be got from the web and installed, in a similar fashion to Linux terminal, cause it would greatly improve my day to day work
First, cmd.exe (command prompt) is slowly being replaced by PowerShell. You should be using PowerShell and forget the command prompt. Ok, now that you're using PowerShell, you should be using OneGet (https://github.com/OneGet/oneget). This is a front-end PowerShell-based command line installer which interfaces with many different online repositories (Chocolatey, etc.). Speaking of Chocolatey, you can also just use that - (https://chocolatey.org) - but I recommend OneGet because you can hook it right into the choco repo but also use your own (among several others). OneGet is an open-source project which can be installed on OS's as old as Win7 and comes as a part of Windows 10. It will give you commands like:
install-package find-package uninstall-package
etc ...
There's a utility called Chocolatey and, in my opinion, it's better than the traditional sudo apt get install packagename. The commands for specific programs are way more intuitive. For instance: sudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc becomes choco install vlc.
Chocolatey is installed primarily using 3rd parties whereas many Linux repositories installed via CLI are from the direct sources. I personally prefer Chocolatey because of how intuitive it is to jump right into however there are alternatives that offer slightly better features. Like OneGet for PowerShell, it offers various search features, nice simple commands, etc...
Heres a tutorial for hooking up both: http://www.fixedbyvonnie.com/2014/11/5-minute-setup-using-oneget-chocolatey-windows-10/
There are a couple ways, but they're not necessarily first-party supported or as smooth as Linux. First, a couple of third-party "package managers" do exist for the Windows platform. The one I hear most about is Chocolatey (available from https://chocolatey.org). This software will let you download and install packages from repositories maintained by third parties (or even your own repositories).
If you can wait until Windows 10, a package manager will be implemented with PowerShell. If you cannot wait until then, you can also do a poor-man's download and installation using the "wget" command in PowerShell and launching the downloaded executable.
