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0 pointsGordonS6y ago0 comments

The amount of software available has been my only gripe for scoop vs chocolately - but I find scoop superior in every other way.

But someone else here mentioned scoop-extras[0], which I hadn't heard of before, and contains over 1,000 apps (including Chrome, Firefox, notepad++, Irfanview, Skype, Sysinternals).

[0] https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras

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cm21876y ago· 2 in thread

The other consideration is how frequently are the packages updated?

GordonSOP6y ago

I don't know, TBH. I've only used scoop for new installs.

I've used chocolately for both new installs and updates in the past though, but wasn't impressed. IME, packages are frequently broken in part or fully, they are not regularly updated, or they are completely abandoned.

cm21876y ago

I am not questioning your experience but for the packages that I used (I just counted 63 on my desktop), I haven't noticed any of these problems.

The only grief I have is that I have a bunch of VMs (<10), and if I set them to all update all their packages simultaneously, I get rate limited by chocolatey and need to wait a while for my IP to be unbanned. But for a free service, I can't really complain.

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pas6y ago

https://rasa.github.io/scoop-directory/by-score

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