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.

  • hayk@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    whoever says pacman is 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 in pacman (or any other default package manager for that matter) is a headache. having multiple versions of non-conflicting gcc, llvm, cuda etc is priceless and very easy with brew.

    elitism aside, brew is genuinely a good package manager when it comes to imperative ones. I still use it on my desktop arch extensively. 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.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 days ago

    I am using an atomic distribution (uBlue) and installing packages with homebrew is much more convenient than overlaying them with rpm-ostree.

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    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!

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        4·
        9 days ago

        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.

  • 0xf@lemmy.ml
    2·
    8 days ago

    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.

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    OF COURSE there has to be yet another package manager I didn’t know about on top of the dozen other ones… 😑