Payton Byrd

> Scoop triggers my companies cyber security software and winger doesn't, but winget lacks many of the packages I was installing from scoop. Exactly this.

This is a fundamental problem with choco, installers have invoked uac elevation on their own since Vista came out, it's expected behavior.

> yes it may look that way to an end-user That's because it's the correct behavior from the end user perspective > If chocolatey is installed to a non-default directory...

There is no indication to the uninitiated of the implications of the default install location nor is it clear that you can even install to an alternat location as that...

@ferventcoder - Look at it from this perspective. Using choco as my package manager means I'm normally running an admin powershell session so I can install stuff as needed without...

> > There is no indication to the uninitiated of the implications of the default install location > > @sharpninja can you elaborate on what you would like to see...

> @sharpninja I'm going to respectfully disagree here - you typically start at https://chocolatey.org/install (that is where the site points you to from front page, top-level navigation, etc). Now you'll...

One final thing: > most things you do on Windows require administrative rights This is patently false. System admins and developers may live in an admin shell, but hardly anyone...

I have never seen that snippet get added to one of my profile scripts, on any machine, ever. And what about when a new PowerShell version is installed? This is...