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I switched to it because it worked much better out of the box and required next to no fiddle-fucking to install tools I need, so I can spend my time doing what

I switched to it because it worked much better out of the box and required next to no fiddle-fucking to install tools I need, so I can spend my time doing what I'm actually paid for, and good at. I have no idea whether the alternatives improved in the intervening 10-ish years, any I have no good reason to look into it since homebrew still works.

KennyBlanken 3y ago
That's great until homebrew breaks in some fucked up way (which a few years ago it used to do often), or they break a package (ditto) and you try to report that to them, and they act like insufferable little shits back (and don't fix the problem.) It reminds me of my boss emailing gnu.org to tell them one of their mirrors was down and got a nastygram back that said "It's spelled GNU/Linux" and the mirror went unfixed.
- prmoustache 3y ago
  > and the mirror went unfixed. They don't maintain the mirrors themselves. These are maintained by third party who decide to hosts the mirrors so there is that.
  - astrange 3y ago
    They can take the mirrors out of rotation if they're not working.
walteweiss 3y ago
In other words ‘I don’t care to learn a thing out of my bubble.’