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Can anyone speak to their experience with either of these? I used choco a few years ago, but eventually gave up because there was very little official support by the developers of most of the packages and choco package updates usually lagged behind official releases. I see choco more often now, though. Have things improved?

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I use scoop on my current installation, it works well enough.

Autoupdates of e.g. Firefox will mess with version numbers a lot. Many apps can't handle being run from a shortcut to a `current` folder that symlinks to a version folder, which means if you want to pin any of those to your task bar you will have to update that shortcut with every update.

I just recently switched back to Windows after 13 years on Mac OS. I've been pretty happy with everything I've installed from choco:

wsl wsl-ubuntu-1604 vlc sshfs virtualbox dropbox wireshark irfanview nvim 1password vcxsrv git slack itunes colortool musicbee utorrent vscode etcher steam goggalaxy epicgameslauncher uplay

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