homebrew sucks compared to macports in terms of working well inside the OSX ecosystem. It installs itself out of the way of OSX and /System, works with Xcode an

homebrew sucks compared to macports in terms of working well inside the OSX ecosystem. It installs itself out of the way of OSX and /System, works with Xcode and system frameworks and has all of the stuff I've ever needed. I've been running big sur on a 2020 iMac during the public beta. I had 4 issues that I raised that were solved: * SMB wasn't loaded at login, so an SMB volume mapping failed * Inbuilt VPNs (L2TP over IPSec) didn't work until the last but one before the public release, but wireguard worked * Minor bug loading a JPG as the avatar for a Contact through Maps for my Home card. I got requests for additional info on this one. In terms of apps and utilities: * Bartender needed to be redone and has been * Karabiner needed changes to replace a kext * Utilities that add keyboard shortcuts etc needed some permission finangling * Things like OneDrive and Google Backup and Sync needed disk permissions * iTerm2 needed to be given full disk access So all in all, Big Sur as an upgrade over Catalina, was pretty smooth. That was from a move from a laptop running Catalina as a Mojave upgrade via Migration Assistant. YMMV.