Chocolatey

Chocolatey

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Chocolatey	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows designed to make complex tasks simple, from Chocolatey Software in Topeka. The vendor states Chocolatey can easily handle all aspects of package management, but it is also able to work well within the existing ecosystem that is Windows software management.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Chocolatey Verified User Team Lead Chose Chocolatey On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Chose Chocolatey The big reason I picked Chocolatey was the fact that npm and Maven are not well-suited for native windows environments. I had to run on a Windows Server virtual machine, so was limited by what I could use, and I did not want to install WSL on the machine. So, I picked … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Package management Pro Dependency management Pro Ease of use
Top Cons	Minus Admin rights Minus Easy to find

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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend	6.8 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	Chocolatey Software It is very easy to install a batch of Windows software from the command line when setting up a new machine. All needed software installs could be scripted in one batch file and then run on a new machine. It is also very easy to keep the installed software up-to-date via the command line. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Chocolatey Software Package management Dependency management Ease of use Availability of libs Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review
Cons	Chocolatey Software Available software to install is not easy to find. You need admin rights to install all software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Chocolatey Software The big reason I picked Chocolatey was the fact that npm and Maven are not well-suited for native windows environments. I had to run on a Windows Server virtual machine, so was limited by what I could use, and I did not want to install WSL on the machine. So, I picked Chocolately for dependency management on those machines. Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Chocolatey Software Improved time to setup new machines Improved security due to easy update process of installed software Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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