@Ambarishrh said in Scoop- Chocolatey alternative:

How is Scoop different to Chocolatey?

Doesn't pollute your path. Where possible, Scoop puts your program shims in a single directory and just adds that to your path

Doesn't use NuGet. NuGet is a great solution to the problem of managing software library dependencies. Scoop avoids this problem altogether: each program you install is isolated and independent.

These two seem to be at odds with one another - if not, please educate me.
I suppose the "where possible" is the exception ; 🙂

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I got it. I overthink everything. 🙂

Sweet. Thanks for getting this for us @adam-ierymenko

@Dashrender said:

damn, I forgot about this post!

Me too!

@Dashrender said:

Short of getting a direct link to what someone is suggesting for you, it's very likely you'll get the wrong (though infected) thing. 😞

Windows is the worst. The Metro store has no search at all, no idea how you were supposed to use it. The Windows Phone store was actually nothing but malware. No real apps at all. The entire platform might as well have been designed for malware. It seemed to have no other function. For that reason alone, nothing more needed, I don't see it as a viable device.

@black3dynamite said in Getting Started with Chocolatey:

With most recent PowerShell version, is this a newer way of installing chocolatey?
https://chocolatey.org/install#install-from-powershell-v3
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

Nothing officially listed yet.

Mentioned GS there now.

Here's the one I've been using (before I found out about ShareX today - I'm gonna check that one out as soon as I have time)
https://lightscreen.com.ar/

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen
Did you guys start this out on a fresh install situation, or to preexisting computers?

For example, thoughts on best way to deploy this to 100 workstations, then remove all of the apps currently not installed through Chocolatey?

Preexisting for about 20 machines and then the rest were fresh installs

I love ninite for personal use. Nuke/pave times drop dramatically.

Sure, but it appears that Chocolatey is now installing applications mostly into their original location (Program Files). That location can't be messed with by anyone buy local admins.

@scottalanmiller That looks great!
How open to malicious content is it?

They use different install locations. Each maintains its own space and database. They don't interact at all.