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because it's easy to manage packages using brew, Windows has the... winget which is all but abandoned. For the longest time there was no such thing as WSL so M
by throwaway675309 4y ago
because it's easy to manage packages using brew, Windows has the... winget which is all but abandoned.
For the longest time there was no such thing as WSL so Mac had a serious advantage for us who migrated between Linux and Mac.
And as you've mentioned I've had so many quality control issues with Windows computers including Dell and Asus that eventually I just said fuck it I'd rather spend 3 to 4 grand on a machine that I know will work flawlessly.
- marliechiller 4y agothere is chocolatey as well which i find works great
- filchermcurr 4y agoChocolatey makes it very easy.
- philistine 4y agoHear hear for Homebrew, who in my mind is single-handedly responsible for getting Apple to stop shipping old versions of scripting languages. We can soon, with Ventura, link the Brew version of Python, and Ruby, and everything. Hear hear !
- roiboosxh 4y agoCan you expand on the Ventura news please? A quick google revealed nothing…
- philistine 4y agoApple no longer ships scripting languages with macOS Ventura. They had said future versions of macOS wouldn’t have them last year with Catalina. I guess future meant next one. You have to install them yourself, just like Java was removed a while ago. Honestly it’s great news, since Apple has always shipped very old versions, and you always had to be careful when linking against the system versions. Ruby is particularly batshit insane to manage multiple versions, at least for me. I absolutely believe that the ascendancy of Homebrew is single-handedly responsible for the removal of those languages. Homebrew is magnificent, and with its recent change of the default install location to the correct Unix location, it’s a nearly perfect package manager for macOS.
- cercatrova 4y agoAbandoned? I use winget every day along with brew, they both work fine.