Scoop is more opinionated, in that there is a single, canonical version of each app. My experience with chocolately is very different, as there are often multiple different packaged versions of any given app, and you've no idea which is the "best" one.
In general it is much simpler in its design and implementation. Most packages are portable and do not use installers. It doesn't have quite as many packages as chocolatey though.
Switched from chocolatey to scoop a while ago and never looked back. Most package installs don't need admin rights, and for those that do, there's the `sudo` package that it recommends, which is a life saver when working with the terminal on Windows in general.
From my experience, I find that Chocolately has way more packages in their main "bucket" compared to searching for buckets with choco, however, I do like the isolation of installed programs with choco.
> gh is available via scoop
And I've been using chocolatey the whole time :facepalm.
How does scoop compare to choco? (Except for the obvious "no admin permissions needed")