Scoop together with a large collection of portable software is a godsend in a corporate environment, where you don't have admin privileges on your work machine

Scoop together with a large collection of portable software is a godsend in a corporate environment, where you don't have admin privileges on your work machine and getting up-to-date software approved and installed by your IT department is a royal pain in the ass. I can confidently say that were it not for Scoop, I'd be in order of magnitude less productive at my work due to the lack of necessary software. Scoop is one of those things that makes a potentially unbearable work environment a productive and even enjoyable one. Yes, Scoop is not perfect. Sometimes it breaks and I have to manually fix it (it likes to uninstall outdated packages before downloading and verifying the checksum of the updated ones). But the time spent on fixing it is easily recovered by boost of productivity that it provides.