Chocolatey is able to speed up the setup of your new developer computers
May 07, 2022
Chocolatey is able to speed up the setup of your new developer computers
Score 5 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Chocolatey
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.
- Install windows software from the command shell.
- Easy update of installed software.
- Catalog of available software to choose from.
- Available software to install is not easy to find.
- You need admin rights to install all software.
- Easy of use when installing available software.
- Reproducible software installation on multiple machines.
- Improved time to setup new machines
- Improved security due to easy update process of installed software
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.
Do you think Chocolatey delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Chocolatey's feature set?
No
Did Chocolatey live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Chocolatey go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Chocolatey again?
No