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The link mentions the differences, though they obviously target similar functionality.

One key difference is that there's no such thing as a Scoop "package", unlike with Chocolatey. You can't build a file that can be moved and installed offline, since Scoop downloads and extracts it from a URL. I suppose you could setup a local proxy and workaround it, but it's not the main use case.

I use both since Scoop is limited in the installers it supports, preferring Scoop when a program is available there.



Bucket nonportable may be of interest to you, if you aren't already aware.


Thanks, I wasn't, though it still seems Chocolatey can handle more software because of the UAC support, so I'll keep using both.


Scoop has a --global flag, too.




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