What is Your Chocolatey List
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Well I totally missed the part where Chocolatey manages the updates to these programs too. Is the update part manual or automatic?
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@technobabble manual but you can update every package that Chocolatey handles with a single command (cup). Three letters and the whole program list updates.
So very easy to script, schedule or run remotely.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble manual but you can update every package that Chocolatey handles with a single command (cup). Three letters and the whole program list updates.
So very easy to script, schedule or run remotely.
Not to be confused with CUPS (common unix printing system)...lol
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I need to get into this. I use PDQ but it's not command line, so not automated. I'm guessing Chocolatey a better solution than NiNite?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I need to get into this. I use PDQ but it's not command line, so not automated. I'm guessing Chocolatey a better solution than NiNite?
Chocolately is all CLI AFAIK. Ninite has a pretty GUI.
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@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
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@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I need to get into this. I use PDQ but it's not command line, so not automated. I'm guessing Chocolatey a better solution than NiNite?
I've not used NiNite. I hear that that is good too.
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@ajstringham said:
@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
Chocolatey is completely free, which is pretty nice. All open source. It is similar to a yum or apt repo.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
Chocolatey is completely free, which is pretty nice. All open source. It is similar to a yum or apt repo.
I want to say that Ninite is like $2/machine/year or something insanely cheap like that. I know they do volume discounts but I can't remember their exact pricing structure.
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
Chocolatey is completely free, which is pretty nice. All open source. It is similar to a yum or apt repo.
I want to say that Ninite is like $2/machine/year or something insanely cheap like that. I know they do volume discounts but I can't remember their exact pricing structure.
Sort of. $240/year for up to 100 devices. So if you have 1 device, it is $240. Only people with exactly 100 devices get down to $2.40/device. Average cost per device would be much higher. It's a bizarre pricing scheme. If you have 101 devices it jumps to $600/year. So realistically you never come anywhere close to the $2-3/year range.
$4-6 / device / year isn't horrible, but compared to free, it's not nothing. And maintaining licensing agreements has its own overhead.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
Chocolatey is completely free, which is pretty nice. All open source. It is similar to a yum or apt repo.
I want to say that Ninite is like $2/machine/year or something insanely cheap like that. I know they do volume discounts but I can't remember their exact pricing structure.
Sort of. $240/year for up to 100 devices. So if you have 1 device, it is $240. Only people with exactly 100 devices get down to $2.40/device. Average cost per device would be much higher. It's a bizarre pricing scheme. If you have 101 devices it jumps to $600/year. So realistically you never come anywhere close to the $2-3/year range.
$4-6 / device / year isn't horrible, but compared to free, it's not nothing. And maintaining licensing agreements has its own overhead.
Yeah. I LOVE Ninite, the free version, for home. I use it to update my programs and deploy a set of programs to computers all the time, without bloatware, etc.
Also, considering that most people aren't going to use something like this with less than 15-20 devices, minimum, it drops down to closer to $1 than $2/device/month, which isn't bad.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
Chocolatey is completely free, which is pretty nice. All open source. It is similar to a yum or apt repo.
I want to say that Ninite is like $2/machine/year or something insanely cheap like that. I know they do volume discounts but I can't remember their exact pricing structure.
Sort of. $240/year for up to 100 devices. So if you have 1 device, it is $240. Only people with exactly 100 devices get down to $2.40/device. Average cost per device would be much higher. It's a bizarre pricing scheme. If you have 101 devices it jumps to $600/year. So realistically you never come anywhere close to the $2-3/year range.
$4-6 / device / year isn't horrible, but compared to free, it's not nothing. And maintaining licensing agreements has its own overhead.
Exactly, and I find myself in that boat. I have 110 devices, Definitely getting the short end of the stick for the $600 cost.
Though I do agree it's not an outrageous price.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@coliver said:
@ajstringham It does have a GUI available although it is fairly simple. Do choco install ChocolateyExplorer, although that does get rid of some of the more powerful aspects of Chocolatey.
I looked at Ninite Pro once. It is pretty sweet.
Chocolatey is completely free, which is pretty nice. All open source. It is similar to a yum or apt repo.
I want to say that Ninite is like $2/machine/year or something insanely cheap like that. I know they do volume discounts but I can't remember their exact pricing structure.
Sort of. $240/year for up to 100 devices. So if you have 1 device, it is $240. Only people with exactly 100 devices get down to $2.40/device. Average cost per device would be much higher. It's a bizarre pricing scheme. If you have 101 devices it jumps to $600/year. So realistically you never come anywhere close to the $2-3/year range.
$4-6 / device / year isn't horrible, but compared to free, it's not nothing. And maintaining licensing agreements has its own overhead.
Exactly, and I find myself in that boat. I have 110 devices, Definitely getting the short end of the stick for the $600 cost.
Though I do agree it's not an outrageous price.
With 110 devices, at $50/month, or $600/year, you're looking at about $0.45/device/month, so less than $6/device/year. Ninite integrates with AD too, from what they say. It's a cool tool.
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@ajstringham said:>
With 110 devices, at $50/month, or $600/year, you're looking at about $0.45/device/month, so less than $6/device/year. Ninite integrates with AD too, from what they say. It's a cool tool.
Sure, that's not the point - the point is - If I had 100 or less, the price would be $250, or $2.50/device/year or $0.21/device/month.
Just going over 100 more than doubled my price.
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@Dashrender said:
@ajstringham said:>
With 110 devices, at $50/month, or $600/year, you're looking at about $0.45/device/month, so less than $6/device/year. Ninite integrates with AD too, from what they say. It's a cool tool.
Sure, that's not the point - the point is - If I had 100 or less, the price would be $250, or $2.50/device/year or $0.21/device/month.
Just going over 100 more than doubled my price.
Yeah, this is true.
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@Dashrender said:
Sure, that's not the point - the point is - If I had 100 or less, the price would be $250, or $2.50/device/year or $0.21/device/month.
Just going over 100 more than doubled my price.
If you had 100 it would be $2.50/device. If you only have one it is $250/device!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Sure, that's not the point - the point is - If I had 100 or less, the price would be $250, or $2.50/device/year or $0.21/device/month.
Just going over 100 more than doubled my price.
If you had 100 it would be $2.50/device. If you only have one it is $250/device!!
In a business this is true - but I'd probably cheat and use the free version for 1 device - or why would I bother with it at all
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I don't like that kind of pricing structure where some people get a great price and others get a bad one, at random like that.
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I like it. It keeps administration simple.
I'm finding keeping a check on the number of licences or devices we have for all our subscription contracts a bit of a ball-ache - InTune, GFI Mailmax, Adobe CC, Autodesk, O365, TrendMicro antivirus....the list gets longer and longer. Sometimes I like to just pay a set fee and forget about it.
