The biggest difference is chocolatey is designed around admin installs. Even the command line tool needs to be run with admin rights. The advantage is things ar

The biggest difference is chocolatey is designed around admin installs. Even the command line tool needs to be run with admin rights. The advantage is things are installed the way Windows expects. Scoop, by contrast, keeps everything user level and installs programs to its own folder in Documents aiming to portable. Scoop is a fair amount simpler and doesn’t have any sort of pro version to upsell you on. Scoop’s catalog is smaller but still pretty well managed.