Installing software in windows is a pure pain. With linux distributions you have all sorts of package management systems like apt-get, yum install, emerge or eix.

For mac there is brew.

With my new corporate laptop, I didn’t want to go through the paint of installing everything again - so I searched for a solution and discovered Chocolatery.

Very easy installation with:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

Afterwards you can install packages with:

choco install -y notepadplusplus

The -y option automatically accepts the license stuff.

Enjoy!

My Favorite Packages

  • 7zip

  • AutoRuns

  • calibre

  • ChocolateyGUI

  • ConEmu http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/

  • eclipse

  • gimp

  • git

  • gradle

  • intellijidea-community

  • jdk8

  • mpc-hc

  • notepadplusplus

  • poshgit

  • PowerShell

  • python

  • ruby

  • ruby2.devkit

  • RubyMine

  • sublime

  • thunderbird

  • virtualbox

  • vlc

  • winscp