Our great sponsors
-
winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
-
boxstarter
Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages
-
InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
-
-
It will soon! Check out winget: https://github.com/Microsoft/winget-cli
Chocolatey is a literal cancer on windows systems and self-admits that their own uninstallar can brick your entire laptop needing a complete reinstall of Windows. There's also numerous reports of various packages, when installed using Chocolatey, causing bootloops, because of BoxStarter, it's happened twice-- 2014 and 2017
When I first tried it, it was extremely slow and lacked many basic features such as updating packages. I don't know if it improved since then, I moved on to using Scoop (wasn't a fan of Chocolatey, don't remember why).
You're misreading. It's not a single package. It's any variety of packages, that happen to be done with using boxstarter/ a specific version of chocolatey. See it happening to nodejs, as an example. This was a really big thing at the time, and it's like everyone just forgot.