alt Hacker NewsDo Linux users actually use Homebrew day to day? My impression of it was that it's mostly for MacOS users that want to keep doing things the same way instead of learning the Linux way (using the OS package manager).
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I have for a while yeah. As mentioned it means the distro packages don't matter for a lot of developer tools / CLIs. Wanna use a stable Debian / Ubuntu LTS for years? Want to use rolling releases so your desktop is up to date? Homebrew's got you covered.
In bazzite/Fedora Silverblue, it's the expected way non-GUI packages are installed to the host system. The other way is toolbox/distrobox (rootless containers tightly integrated with the host).
It’s the default package manager in Bazzite and is once of the most functional packagr managers on atomic fedora.
I use it on DSM (Synology OS) because all the software can be easily installed outside of DSM.
Ohh yes, a minority of us do exist. I prefer it over appimages on my personal pc. Gets you almost rolling release software without needing to use a rolling release. I used to use distrobox with arch Linux on pop os base, but then just gave homebrew and nix a try to scratch the itch.
Nix is not there yet in terms of user friendliness. homebrew for linux is pretty awesome.
Only issue i have is that it creates a separate user and doesn’t support custom prefixes (their page says you are on your own if using custom prefixes). While their reasoning is sound, not having an easy way to know which programs will break if using custom prefix is a bummer for me at work.