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Homebrew is better in one obvious way: You can't break your system and the packages are usually up to date. With pacman you do one wrong step and your system fa

• regecks 10y ago
  When I was forced to use OS X (for about 2 years), my homebrew stopped working (just partially wiped out and required 'doctor' or whatever) twice due to major OS updates. Not exactly breaking the system, but breaking all the tools I cared about. It also randomly broke on other occasions. Not being a first-class citizen on the OS does matter. Been using Xubuntu 14.04 + i3 (and recently, Qubes OS) full time for 3 years now. Never faced a problem with apt, and I have a sane wm instead of the "drag this window out of the way to see the other window" hell (and not having to use my mouse is an added bonus). I loathe booting into a different OS. There are certainly ways to emulate the Linux experience on OS X. But increasingly I found that OS X wasn't delivering any value in itself (I mostly stuck to iTerm + browser), and the less-than-perfect emulation of the Linux environment became infuriating. Using Arch as a comparison for ease-of-use probably isn't terribly indicative of Linux distros generally. It's "bleeding edge". My experience is as a person who mostly writes software for Linux and admins Linux systems. OS X is just an unambiguous productivity drop for me, but I can appreciate that it is probably not the case for casual use.