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A command-line installer for Windows, read comparison Scoop or Chocolatey? Which Windows 10 package manager should you use?.
Specs
Specs are quantitative aspects of the option such as the price
Pros
Pro App installs are independent and self-contained; therefore, they have fewer conflicts and are easier to uninstall
Pro Apps are installed without requiring admin permission
Installing for all users requires admin permissions in order to be secure, so scoop installs without that requiring an elevated command prompt.
Pro App packages install locally (so users can preserve their own environment) or globally
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Cons
Con Has a smaller selection of packages than Chocolatey
While Chocolatey seems to have a huge selection of packages including some windows updates, Scoop has a much smaller selection mainly focused on command-line tools. However, it can be argued that Scoop is focusing on a different type of setup than Chocolatey so package count may not be a good comparison.
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Recommendations
Scoop
Recommended 6 years ago
Works as expected like a charm.
Pro
Free and Open SourcePro
Absolutely zero costsPro
App installs are independent and self-contained; therefore, they have fewer conflicts and are easier to uninstallPro
App packages install locally (so users can preserve their own environment) or globallyPro
Apps are installed without requiring admin permissionScoop
Recommended 8 months ago
Pro
Free and Open SourcePro
Absolutely zero costsPro
Great help available on GitHub WikiPro
Installed packages verified by checksumsPro
App installs are independent and self-contained; therefore, they have fewer conflicts and are easier to uninstallPro
App packages install locally (so users can preserve their own environment) or globallyPro
Users can easily create their own apps and collections of appsPro
Apps are installed without requiring admin permissionPro
Sets reasonable default configuration options for appsPro
Simple versioning model for dependenciesPro
Good CLI UXPro
Easy to upgrade installed packagesPro
Customisable selectionPro
All default packages are portable with a few exceptionsPro
Great selection of apps for programmers and experienced usersPro
Support for ARM64Pro
Does not clog your Program Files folderComments
Flagged Pros + Cons
Con Doesn't handle dependencies, which is the entire point
Judging from the author's own demo video, where git fails to install because it requires other stuff.
Seems like the author has never used a real package manager like apt.