Honest question - why are people so enthusiastic about Chocolatey? Most packages, including the Fiddler package, just run a small Powershell script that downloads an installer from a known location (in this case https://www.telerik.com/docs/default-source/fiddler/fiddlers...), verifies the checksum and runs it silently. As far as I know, it's all just wrappers on top of stuff that's always existed in Windows Installer. Is it simply the convenience of the chocolatey.org catalog and the ability to avoid visiting a bunch of websites looking for installers? I thought ninite.com had that cornered for most uses.

This is similar to how a lot of the homebrew cask packages work on OS X. Ninite appears to be more end-user/consumer focused while chocolatey aims for a wider swath of developer packages as well.

Personally, I use neither because neither is open source. Instead, I use scoop: http://scoop.sh/

But alternatives aren’t:

Chocolatey - Apache license - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

Homebrew (for Mac) - BSD license - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

Scoop (as previously mentioned) - Public Domain - https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop

Comparing Scoop to Chocolatey: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari...