Copying from a comment I made on Ars: Where scoop differs, which might be good or bad depending on your point of view, is that it installs software to its own

Copying from a comment I made on Ars: Where scoop differs, which might be good or bad depending on your point of view, is that it installs software to its own location, and self-updating apps don't self update. So, tutorials and programs have to take Scoop into account[1] since they won't be installed to their usual locations (bonus: scoop itself can be installed to your users home directory, or to C:\ProgramData\scoop). Another wart is that maintainers of scoop recommend using scoop + winget[2]. I think it's neat, but personally, I just use winget to install things, and a variety of portable apps on a secondary drive (in fact, winget supports installing one-off programs to random locations). Another nice thing about winget is being able to update and manage software that wasn't installed with it too. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/123205#issuecomment-834670454 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/123205#issuecomme... [2]: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/3691#issuecomment-1276399022 https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/3691#issuecom...