Everyone's management system will differ.
I don't want to have to do all that daily scooping and tending so I use cheap bedding in the coop and free/cheap litter in the run in quantities that allow me to clean the coop once every 6-12 weeks and the run twice a year.
Not everyone has room for...
There are two concepts that are readily confused:
Deep Bedding, which is always kept dry, and Deep Litter, which is a form of cold composting -- requiring some moisture and, optimally, bare ground contact.
For my in-town chickens I used Deep Bedding in the coop -- piling on layers of pine...