Chocolatey is scriptable, it handles the downloads, checks the checksums, it's easily searchable, etc. For various reasons I don't use it much anymore, but it'

Chocolatey is scriptable, it handles the downloads, checks the checksums, it's easily searchable, etc. For various reasons I don't use it much anymore, but it's really convenient to go to a new machine after a rebuild and just run a standard script of choco install -y vim; choco install -y python # ...another 20 lines and I'm up and running with all my standard apps. Having to download all those apps, verify the checksums and go through the install wizard can easily take a couple of hours. It's especially useful if you're spinning up a lot of vms.