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The apt-get install for damn near anything is a big one (for Debian based distros obviously) in my opinion. I think the access to build tools and packages is b
by marktangotango 10y ago
The apt-get install for damn near anything is a big one (for Debian based distros obviously) in my opinion. I think the access to build tools and packages is big too. I had case recently where I needed to make a one line change to an Apache module; wget the source, make the change, configure, make, make install, exactly the same as on the prod server.
Unfortunately the author delves into text editors, which can be flame inducing.
- Yaggo 10y agoHomebrew comes pretty close to apt-get on Mac. Of course the whole OS being open source & community driven (sans driver blobs) is nice thing, althought benefits are mostly idealogical than practical. The argument "dev env == production env" is overrated IMO, because you typically want more conservative/controlled production environment anyway and/or you may prefer different distro for workstation use. For serious use you anyway need proper test environment etc. Editors are editors. (Vim being slower on Mac is hard to buy, unless the author refers to some non-commandline variant.)
- Veen 10y agoMacVim can be a little laggy on rare occasions, but that doesn't impact it in the terminal.
- Latty 10y agoI ran a Macbook Pro for a while and found Homebrew to be a really poor imitation. I had a lot of issues with it (broken packages, manual intervention required, etc...), things didn't seem as up to date as I'd expect, and the range of packages was poor. It was also only usable for a small subset of the software I'd want.