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I find it astounding that so many developers use MacOS. To do anything useful you need to install homebrew, and the hoops you have to jump through to get homeb
by RVuRnvbM2e 5y ago
I find it astounding that so many developers use MacOS.
To do anything useful you need to install homebrew, and the hoops you have to jump through to get homebrew running are annoying. Not to mention the fact that it is a wholly unsupported third-party package management system that doesn't integrate properly into the rest of the OS.
Don't get me wrong, homebrew is awesome tech. It just seems that you have to use it to jump a bunch of barriers that Apple purposefully puts in the way before you get an actually useful and up-to-date development environment. Why do people put up with this?
- samrolken 5y agoWhat are the hoops? It installs for me in a few minutes with a single command.
- evercast 5y ago+1 on this. Homebrew is so smooth to use that I never felt like I am missing something compared to Linux package managers.
- tgv 5y agoIt's a great machine for other things, too. And there are so many hoops you don't have to jump through. I remember wasting a whole day on trying to get some Dell's WiFi working under Linux. And then there are tools like Pixelmator, which simply have no equivalent on Linux. Not to mention that the company uses Office 365 for everything, and that just doesn't run well in a browser. OTOH, setting up brew is pretty simple, and installing Docker is even simpler.
- cookieswumchorr 5y agowell, have you tried to get the Dell's wifi working under MacOS? its one thing to use a preinstalled OS, and another to install one yourself. Of course there is more hassle if you choose the second option. But you don't have too, there are laptops with Linux on the market.
- rawbert 5y agoI wouldn't call copy & paste a hoop. I am still running on my 5 year old homebrew installation without any issues with Mac OS updates. I think it was worth the "struggle".