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by BigJ1211 1038 days ago
I've seen the overal negative sentiment as well. As someone who's been using homebrew since I think 2012, I've enjoyed using it a lot with only some rare issues. So overal it's been a great experience.

I've never done a dive into package managers and just used what's been available. So even though homebrew is slower than other package managers, it has also rarely thrown me for a loop.
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50 1038 days ago
> I've never done a dive into package managers and just used what's been available.

See the Nix Package Manager[1].

1. https://checkoway.net/musings/nix/

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FireBeyond 1038 days ago
I'm someone who very much loves the concept of Nix and what it is trying to achieve. However, a sibling poster put it well:

> On the advice of numerous HN threads, I switched from Homebrew to Nix, and gave it a 6 month shot. Nix was great at first: simple, fast, elegant. However, I quickly realized that the simplicity was a facade that even a casual user would eventually be forced to remove. And what you find behind the facade gets really, complex really quickly.

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