I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I installed Chocolatey the other day because it's the distribution method for VSCodium.
It's a hassle to install and even following the instructions I couldn't get it to work after closing and opening the terminal. I assume it puts something in the path but doesn't configure the global PATH setting, but that bit's not documented.
Seems pretty rough compared to more mature package managers.
From humble beginnings at an MSP, I've adventured through life as a sysadmin, into an engineer, and finally landed as a developer focused on fixing problems with automation.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Yeah, it didn't work for me. Rather, it installs, but since it's not in the global path, if I open a new terminal, it's not available. I could fix this easily enough, I guess, but the fact that it doesn't work puts me off.
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I installed Chocolatey the other day because it's the distribution method for VSCodium.
It's a hassle to install and even following the instructions I couldn't get it to work after closing and opening the terminal. I assume it puts something in the path but doesn't configure the global PATH setting, but that bit's not documented.
Seems pretty rough compared to more mature package managers.
What? It's literally
curl site.com | bash
level of install from an elevated prompt. They even have a copy/paste option in their docs:chocolatey.org/install
Yeah, it didn't work for me. Rather, it installs, but since it's not in the global path, if I open a new terminal, it's not available. I could fix this easily enough, I guess, but the fact that it doesn't work puts me off.