What is Your Chocolatey List
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I don't like that kind of pricing structure where some people get a great price and others get a bad one, at random like that.
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I like it. It keeps administration simple.
I'm finding keeping a check on the number of licences or devices we have for all our subscription contracts a bit of a ball-ache - InTune, GFI Mailmax, Adobe CC, Autodesk, O365, TrendMicro antivirus....the list gets longer and longer. Sometimes I like to just pay a set fee and forget about it.
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@Carnival-Boy the Ninite style pricing only works out easier if you fall into a category where you safely won't grow past another pricing tier limit. Otherwise you have the bad pricing plus all of the monitoring and auditing work of other pricing options.
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GreenShot
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@StrongBad said:
@scottalanmiller said:
GreenShot
Is that going to go onto your official list?
Good point.
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Fixed
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I need to dig into this more. A free/near free way to deploy updates to things like Java/Adobe Reader/Adobe flash, would be awesome.
Those are all included in Chocolatey's repository. We just don't include them as standard as we avoid Java and Flash as default deployments. We should really move Reader to Chocolatey, though, as that is something that it would handle better than Reader's own updater.
I stopped using reader and started using Foxit. Reader always took a bazillion megs of ram and Foxit seems to have more tools.
I did have to use reader one time for a pdf for my transcripts because it was encrypted and stopped working after 30 days, but other than that I use Foxit.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I need to dig into this more. A free/near free way to deploy updates to things like Java/Adobe Reader/Adobe flash, would be awesome.
Those are all included in Chocolatey's repository. We just don't include them as standard as we avoid Java and Flash as default deployments. We should really move Reader to Chocolatey, though, as that is something that it would handle better than Reader's own updater.
I stopped using reader and started using Foxit. Reader always took a bazillion megs of ram and Foxit seems to have more tools.
I did have to use reader one time for a pdf for my transcripts because it was encrypted and stopped working after 30 days, but other than that I use Foxit.
I don't know if it has a Chocolatey package or not but Sumatra PDF is a really nice reader, I generally install that before anything else.
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@coliver said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I need to dig into this more. A free/near free way to deploy updates to things like Java/Adobe Reader/Adobe flash, would be awesome.
Those are all included in Chocolatey's repository. We just don't include them as standard as we avoid Java and Flash as default deployments. We should really move Reader to Chocolatey, though, as that is something that it would handle better than Reader's own updater.
I stopped using reader and started using Foxit. Reader always took a bazillion megs of ram and Foxit seems to have more tools.
I did have to use reader one time for a pdf for my transcripts because it was encrypted and stopped working after 30 days, but other than that I use Foxit.
I don't know if it has a Chocolately package or not but Sumatra PDF is a really nice reader, I generally install that before anything else.
I'll have to look into it. Thanks!
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Can chocolatey managed already installed software which previously installed without that?
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@Ambarishrh said:
Can chocolatey managed already installed software which previously installed without that?
I don't think so.
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@Ambarishrh said:
Can chocolatey managed already installed software which previously installed without that?
No, it can only manage what it has in its repos and is installed through it (second part I am 90% sure about.) Same as RPM or APT.
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@coliver said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I need to dig into this more. A free/near free way to deploy updates to things like Java/Adobe Reader/Adobe flash, would be awesome.
Those are all included in Chocolatey's repository. We just don't include them as standard as we avoid Java and Flash as default deployments. We should really move Reader to Chocolatey, though, as that is something that it would handle better than Reader's own updater.
I stopped using reader and started using Foxit. Reader always took a bazillion megs of ram and Foxit seems to have more tools.
I did have to use reader one time for a pdf for my transcripts because it was encrypted and stopped working after 30 days, but other than that I use Foxit.
I don't know if it has a Chocolatey package or not but Sumatra PDF is a really nice reader, I generally install that before anything else.
choco install sumatrapdf -
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I need to dig into this more. A free/near free way to deploy updates to things like Java/Adobe Reader/Adobe flash, would be awesome.
Those are all included in Chocolatey's repository. We just don't include them as standard as we avoid Java and Flash as default deployments. We should really move Reader to Chocolatey, though, as that is something that it would handle better than Reader's own updater.
I stopped using reader and started using Foxit. Reader always took a bazillion megs of ram and Foxit seems to have more tools.
I did have to use reader one time for a pdf for my transcripts because it was encrypted and stopped working after 30 days, but other than that I use Foxit.
choco install foxitreader -
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I need to dig into this more. A free/near free way to deploy updates to things like Java/Adobe Reader/Adobe flash, would be awesome.
Those are all included in Chocolatey's repository. We just don't include them as standard as we avoid Java and Flash as default deployments. We should really move Reader to Chocolatey, though, as that is something that it would handle better than Reader's own updater.
I stopped using reader and started using Foxit. Reader always took a bazillion megs of ram and Foxit seems to have more tools.
I did have to use reader one time for a pdf for my transcripts because it was encrypted and stopped working after 30 days, but other than that I use Foxit.
Does the Chocolatey version remove all the crap ware their normal install dragged along? I too moved to Foxit it around 5 years ago.. but 2-3 years ago I dumped it because it became riddled with crapware.
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@Dashrender said:
Does the Chocolatey version remove all the crap ware their normal install dragged along?
FileZilla has no crapware.
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@Dashrender said:
I too moved to Foxit it around 5 years ago.. but 2-3 years ago I dumped it because it became riddled with crapware.
The installer did, or Foxit itself?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I too moved to Foxit it around 5 years ago.. but 2-3 years ago I dumped it because it became riddled with crapware.
The installer did, or Foxit itself?
Installer did. Don't think there was a way to get it from their site without the installer though.
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@Dashrender said:
Installer did. Don't think there was a way to get it from their site without the installer though.
Chocolatey does not use installers. Just the products.
