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How scoop made my dev experience in Windows so great

Luciano Graziani on October 17, 2018

Since I started programming, I used Windows for the most part. I always had problems while configuring everything I needed every time I formatted t...
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TQM

Absolutely! Scoop is a thing of beauty.
It's a nice idea to persist the configuration however that the number of the apps in the persist folder does not match the number of apps installed. What do I miss ?

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Jakob Attkinson

I started using scoop myself recently. However, not all apps I install are portable. Thus, I don't see how committing the entire scoop folder to a git repo helps.

Secondly, I wish there was a video guide for setting up personal buckets and auto update them. I still haven't been able to do this.

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Luciano Graziani

Absolutely! That's why I configured the git repo inside C:\Users\<user>\scoop\persist instead of the scoop root folder. Furthermore, you wouldn't want to add to the repo the entire persist folder, there are some things like local caches that you don't want to push them.

Secondly, I wish there was a video guide for setting up personal buckets and auto update them. I still haven't been able to do this.

I never thought that but true!