Installing something with chocolatey means downloading some powershell script, with somewhat arbitrary contents, and running that to do all sorts of install, re

Installing something with chocolatey means downloading some powershell script, with somewhat arbitrary contents, and running that to do all sorts of install, restart, migration, etc., logic, of varying quality, and with varying philosophies of what should be done "automatically". Installing something with scoop means downloading a declarative json manifest, with occasional, short pre-install/post-install levels of scripting (in all cases I've seen, it amounts to testing if a file is present, and copying it if so, etc.). The complexity that is tolerated for the scripting is much much lower. I've also found chocolatey to be less well curated, with some odd packages with simple names that come from random people who don't seem to do a great job at maintaining the package. scoop is preferable on every metric, IMO.