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+[meta]: <title> (Scoop guide)
+[meta]: <subtitle> (Handbook and quick explanations)
+[meta]: <author> (Loek)
+[meta]: <date> (July 22 2021)
+[meta]: <tags> (windows, normie)
+[meta]: <cover> (/img/scoop.png)
+
+Here's a quick reference for returning customers:
+
+```bash
+# installing stuff
+scoop install <program name>
+
+# removing stuff
+scoop uninstall <program name>
+
+# updating all the stuff
+scoop update *
+
+# update single stuff
+scoop update <program name>
+
+# add a bucket / repository
+scoop bucket add <bucket name>
+
+# searching for stuff
+scoop search <search term>
+# keep in mind that scoop's search is very slow
+```
+
+For more things look in the [wiki](https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki)
+or in the wiki's [faq](https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/FAQ).
+
+Now here's a list of things that people who don't use `cmd` get confused about:
+
+- Highlighting text in cmd selects it. If you've selected text, right click
+	copies it. If you don't have text selected, right click pastes it.
+- Ctrl-c and ctrl-v won't work as you expect them to. The same goes for most
+	keyboard shortcuts commonly used in graphical ('normal') programs. Ctrl-c is
+	used to stop programs in cmd, and ctrl-v doesn't do anything. The keyboard
+	shortcut for pasting in cmd is shift+insert.
+- Clicking inside the cmd window to place your text cursor doesn't work,
+	because clicking is only used for selection. You'll have to use your arrow
+	keys to move the cursor. You can also use ctrl-a to move it to the beginning
+	of a line, or ctrl-e to move it to the end of a line.
+- It's normal for programs in cmd to not give any output and just silently
+	quit. This is normal and if a program doesn't output anything you can assume
+	it did the thing you wanted it to do. (though scoop is very verbose and will
+	print progress info most of the time)
+- You can type new commands for the computer to execute once you see the prompt
+	again. Most of the time it looks something like this:
+  
+  ```
+  C:\Windows\System32> 
+	```
+
+## Installation (on a fresh system)
+
+```powershell
+Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser
+iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
+```
+
+## Some more things explained
+
+### Why scoop at all
+
+Scoop is a package manager. These are the primary way you install software on
+Linux. The reason package managers are awesome, is because it's like an app
+store in the sense that it's one central place to install all your software,
+but without the downsides of an actual app store.
+
+If you develop your own software, you can write a scoop install script for it,
+and create a pull request on GitHub. This way basically anyone can add software
+into scoop, but it's still moderated better than for example wikipedia.
+
+Scoop also has more open source software, which is better (most of the time).
+This means you're more likely to get 'better software' like 7-zip instead of
+(bad) (paid) software like winrar or winzip.
+
+Scoop also uses powershell scripts to install software which means you won't
+have to click through installers, or watch out for sneaky buttons that also
+install some weird toolbar in your browser.
+
+### Buckets
+
+Buckets are a collection of similar programs. The way these are managed is
+through something called a repository. This is just a central place for
+multiple people to view and collaborate on scoop at once.
+
+Buckets you'll probably want to add are `extras`, `nonportable`, `games`, and
+`java`.
+
+By adding a bucket you're not actually installing any software, but scoop will
+check for updates on that bucket.
+
+If you want to for example install java using scoop, you'll first have to add
+the `java` bucket by running `scoop bucket add java` in order for scoop to be
+able to find the `openjdk` package. Then you can run `scoop install openjdk`,
+and then you'll have java installed.
+
+### Brave (browser)
+
+Because the default brave browser in scoop isn't updated, I use the [everonline
+repo](https://github.com/everonline/brave). Here's how to do that:
+
+```bash
+scoop bucket add everonline https://github.com/everonline/brave.git
+scoop install everonline/brave
+```
+
+## Awesome software
+
+[Here's](/post/software#pc-software) a list of the software I use pretty much every day,
+and some of it is also available for windows using scoop!