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  choco install -y foobar2000

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Are people actually using chocolately?

I never could get over the way they get you to install it with the equivalent of piping curl into. Or the way it kept advertising the paid version, which is really disconcerting when something has become effectively the only way to manage what software you have installed (or will be eventually).

If the limitations of the free version and/or the pestering bugs you, consider looking into Scoop.

I use both. They complement each other (Scoop has a smaller repo). Topgrade runs both (and Windows Update) in one command.

I do.

But to your second point, I don't think of chocolatey as a package manager to rely on. I just see it as an alternative download location, and uninstall the software through the Control Panel later.

It just seems like a big red bullseye, hack it and have your spyware spread to a lot of computers

they haven’t had a package injected with malware is impressive

If its good enough for Wendell Wilson (Level1Techs), its good enough for me.

https://chocolatey.org/packages mentions download numbers for each package, which seem to indicate people do use it.

We use it via the ChocolateyGet PS provider. I.e. installing most software (but not all) is now just 'Find-Package foobar' and 'Install-Package winamp' etc.

I've been using it for years, it drastically reduces the pain of setting up Windows machines and it has at least 90% of the software I want. I would recommend it to any technically competent user.

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