[pyre]

Really? Talking about how homebrew is pretty painless is "Apple fanboyism at its best?" Sure it's another thing to do, but look at any thread about running Linux on a laptop. How many people are like X laptop runs great you just need to add Y kernel parameter to the boot options. Isn't that a "hoop to jump through" too? Or all of the people fighting to keep their Windows install from upgrading to Windows 10. Isn't that a hoop to jump through?

[ascagnel_]

Installing homebrew is a hoop; in an ideal world, your OS vendor would provide a means for installing such packages safely (the Mac App Store would count if Apple cared about it).

This is also a bit weird since getting git installed on OSX in the first place requires it's own hoop: "buying" the free copy of XCode and installing it is required for the command line tools that homebrew relies on.

[djrogers]

"buying" the free copy of XCode and installing it is required for the command line tools that homebrew relies on.

No, you can simply download the command line tools that Apple provides free of charge - which the homebrew install script in fact does.

[efdee]

Comparing with the hoops Linux or Windows require you to jump through doesn't make this less of a hoop.