Nothing specific, just that Chocolately is what I’ve used the most over the years and seems to be pretty reliable.
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Kissaki@beehaw.org 1 year ago
For Windows, what made you decide on Chocolatey rather than winget/Windows Package Manager?
corbin@infosec.pub 1 year ago
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 year ago
Not OP but since MS stole winget, i refuse to use it and use scoop and Chocolatey instead. They have more packages too.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I think it’s still a net-positive.
After that author’s post (from 2020) Microsoft acknowledged and apologized the bad way they went about it. (IIRC anyway.)
It’s certainly a shitty situation for the author, with the PM opportunity at Microsoft not working out (reason unknown/not visible to us). The author can’t invest as MS can into their project. The author could continue, but obviously, it’s less “useful” now as a product, with a “better” alternative.
Having it be a Microsoft-maintained project gave and gives it a lot more impact and significance, both functionality-wise and public-/enterprise-wise. Having an official package manager like this is a very good thing.