If you’re using linux and also use brew package manager on your machine, what is your use case? I’m curious why people would use brew in addition to their distribution’s native package manager.
No, we already have a package manager.
I’m using it on Ubuntu and Debian on WSL - I have a Windows 11 laptop at my job, but I do most of my work on linux, so I chose to use Ubuntu and Debian, but I needed some packages that are not up to date with the native package manager, so I went with brew and I can say it’s very good!
and stupid people are downvoting me for what? because I told my use case? fucking idiots!
Well a comment like this will not help in your case, calling people idiots is not nice. Most on Linux sub don’t like Windows, you should expect this. No need to get furious about random internet points. I also don’t like Windows, but wish you best luck with it. At least you are using Linux on it. Just ignore people who hate YOU for that.
I don’t, but people probably do because the package(s) they want are more available in that system.
It’s primarily for Macs, isn’t it? Cross-platform availability is probably a factor.
Or just because they are used to it and don’t want to learn a new package manager and all its features and quirks. Would be a shame though. Everyone should!
whoever says
pacmanis enough either have all the time in the Universe to configure the miniscule knobs or have never done serious development with multi-platform/compiler deployments. controlling which compilers are used for which packages inpacman(or any other default package manager for that matter) is a headache. having multiple versions of non-conflictinggcc,llvm,cudaetc is priceless and very easy with brew.elitism aside,
brewis genuinely a good package manager when it comes to imperative ones. I still use it on my desktoparchextensively. ofc, if you have nix, there is really no good reason for it (and I’m not even sure it’s possible).PS. “but you can use docker” – not if you want to have the same performance especially on GPUs. also have you ever tried containerizing HIP? it’s a frigging nightmare.
PPS. if you disagree with the first paragraph – please reach out or send links. i’d love to learn how to do these on finite timescales of our lifetime.
I stick to stuff like Pacman and paru
No I use Debian. For anything that’s somehow not packaged for it, there’s Docker.
I still don’t get Docker. Can we see it as a universal package format that works across all systems, kind of? Well in that regard, we also have JavaScript based applications for the web browser and Web Assembly to run locally too.
It’s more than a packaging format but yes. It includes all dependencies needed to run the main program in a container but the kernel. It’s a complete separate root filesystem. When you run it, as intended, a single process is started which loads all the things it needs from that filesystem. It’s isolated from the rest of the system unless you share resources with it, like directories or special devices. Obviously this results in larger packages but there is a clever way to save on that overhead with layering, so in practice while still significantly larger than single program deb files, it’s not nearly as bad as it sounds. The thing is that Flatpak and Snap also package dependencies to a different degree.
OF COURSE there has to be yet another package manager I didn’t know about on top of the dozen other ones… 😑
I did a few times on bazzite. But it’s now aurora. Haven’t had anything I was missing. Was also exporting a few things from arch in distrobox. Was more of a experiment then a necessity.
I don’t use brew but I do use Guix on top of PopOS, for most of the same reasons I use Guix System as a daily driver distro on my other machines. The PopOS install is meant to act as a “Windows replacement” so it has proprietary drivers, Steam, etc. For anything that’s not a system package I get it from Guix if possible, because I prefer Guix’s package management and its commitment to software freedom.
On Windows I use Scoop which has a handful of similarities in terms of user package management.
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