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For me the big reason I switched is the first two. Installing locally to a single path makes for a lot less messy filesystem, and I don’t have to go admin to us
by jarcane 8y ago
For me the big reason I switched is the first two. Installing locally to a single path makes for a lot less messy filesystem, and I don’t have to go admin to use it.
Also frankly, Chocolatey’s repos have become a mess, full of broken and untrustworthy software, and I just do not trust giving it admin permissions anymore. I don’t know what it is about windows software distributors that seems to lead all of them down this road, but I hope scoop can hold out...
- tracker1 8y agoAs to windows software requiring admin to install. A lot of it comes down to that for the most part, software that installs globally should be limited to admin users. That doesn't mean that a lot of windows software can't install locally. I do kind of wish that scoop used ~/AppData/Local/scoop instead of ~/scoop (from other comments). Looking into it more, it's interesting. I just didn't get a lot of insight from the home page in the post link. But I do agree with most of the troublesome issues with Chocolatey mentioned in this and other comments.