Chocolatey Reviews & Insights

Score8.4 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Chocolatey are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

User-Friendly Interface: Users find Chocolatey to be very intuitive and easy to navigate. They appreciate the short tutorial that takes only 5-10 minutes to get started. The clean and user-friendly interface of Chocolatey makes it effortless to search for and manage new programs.

Simplified Package Installation: Users highly appreciate the ability to install packages using a single line of code. They commend how simple and efficient Chocolatey is in searching, upgrading, and installing packages. The automation of tasks like installation and module updates is also valued by users.

Convenient Administration Features: Users consider the administration features of Chocolatey, including command-line and PowerShell capabilities, as extremely convenient. They find the powershell scripting capabilities advantageous for deploying scripts when needed. Additionally, being able to easily set up new joiners' laptops with installations like Kubernetes and Minikube using Chocolatey is highlighted by users.

Reviews

2 Reviews

Chocolatey is able to speed up the setup of your new developer computers

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

May 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Chocolatey is used to manage the installation of windows software on developer machines. It was selected to improve the time needed to set up a new machine or to stay up-to-date on installed software.

Pros

Install windows software from the command shell.
Easy update of installed software.
Catalog of available software to choose from.

Cons

Available software to install is not easy to find.
You need admin rights to install all software.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Hungry for dependency management on Windows? Eat Chocolatey!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I needed to find a good way to manage dependencies on Windows machines - Chocolatey was it. There's no real good npm alternative on Windows.

Pros

Package management
Dependency management
Ease of use
Availability of libs

Cons

Maintenance - not all packages are kept up to date.

Likelihood to Recommend

Chocolately is perfect if you need a robust, well-supported (by the community) package manager. It has basically every major library/tool that you need to do development. I used it specifically in UI test automation.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience