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.
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’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!
Because, WSL is not a proper way to use / run Linux.
It absolutely is. WSL literally runs Linux in a virtual machine.
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.
No, we already have a package manager.
I stick to stuff like Pacman and paru
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.
I am using an atomic distribution (uBlue) and installing packages with homebrew is much more convenient than overlaying them with
rpm-ostree.I will if it’s an obscure package that has a recipe, otherwise I avoid it to keep my paths as clean as possible. It can end up making a confusing mess of things if you accidentally install something via other means that also gets installed by brew as a dependency, as an example.
@tkw8 I thought brew was a MacIntosh thing?
I use nix for extra packages on my linux desktop. I don"t like brew at all.
OF COURSE there has to be yet another package manager I didn’t know about on top of the dozen other ones… 😑
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.
