[AdrianRossouw]

> Try it! Honestly - you will not look back.

I know lots of developers who run linux on their macs. Many developers I know also switched to using linux virtual machines for serious development because dealing with the flustercuck of osx package management is too much.

I really want to switch back too, after 10 years of using osx primarily.

[pbiggar]

Have you tried homebrew? I agree that macports and fink suck, and homebrew had some problems when it started, but it has since matured into a wonderful package manager IMO, and I significantly prefer it to apt.

[stcredzero]

I will second homebrew. Not perfect, but pretty darn good.