MacOS question for someone who is still relatively new to MacOS.
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MacOS question for someone who is still relatively new to MacOS.
I own an M4 Mac Mini and am curious about Brew/HomeBrew. I see a lot of mention about it and that there's so many apps available through it that aren't necessarily available in other places.
Is it worth it to install it and use it? Is it easy to install? I assume it has to be installed via command line, which likely isn't an issue for me since I did use Linux for several years back in 2002 - 2010 or so.
Suggestions or thoughts from those that use it? I'm not a power user and certainly not a developer.
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MacOS question for someone who is still relatively new to MacOS.
I own an M4 Mac Mini and am curious about Brew/HomeBrew. I see a lot of mention about it and that there's so many apps available through it that aren't necessarily available in other places.
Is it worth it to install it and use it? Is it easy to install? I assume it has to be installed via command line, which likely isn't an issue for me since I did use Linux for several years back in 2002 - 2010 or so.
Suggestions or thoughts from those that use it? I'm not a power user and certainly not a developer.
@cliffwade it's slow. But it works. I use it at work where I have to use MacOS.
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MacOS question for someone who is still relatively new to MacOS.
I own an M4 Mac Mini and am curious about Brew/HomeBrew. I see a lot of mention about it and that there's so many apps available through it that aren't necessarily available in other places.
Is it worth it to install it and use it? Is it easy to install? I assume it has to be installed via command line, which likely isn't an issue for me since I did use Linux for several years back in 2002 - 2010 or so.
Suggestions or thoughts from those that use it? I'm not a power user and certainly not a developer.
@cliffwade Think of it as a package manager for MacOS and use accordingly. It's on every one of my Macs, even the old / unsupported ones where it opts to compile many things very slowly.
To extend my point, for Windows, winget is the equivalent (package manager).
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@cliffwade Think of it as a package manager for MacOS and use accordingly. It's on every one of my Macs, even the old / unsupported ones where it opts to compile many things very slowly.
To extend my point, for Windows, winget is the equivalent (package manager).
@tw000 Gotcha. Is it easy to install? I assume I just need to install it somehow from within Terminal on my MacOS and then go from there?
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@cliffwade it's slow. But it works. I use it at work where I have to use MacOS.
@gryzor Slow as in a bad thing? Are the apps that are installed using it slow as well?
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@tw000 Gotcha. Is it easy to install? I assume I just need to install it somehow from within Terminal on my MacOS and then go from there?
@cliffwade It's just a sketchy-looking curl statement to pull down and run a shell script.
Probably worth a read through the first time.
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@cliffwade It's just a sketchy-looking curl statement to pull down and run a shell script.
Probably worth a read through the first time.
@tw000 Been reading that for a few minutes already actually.
I see there there is a .pkg installer as well. Is it recommended or not recommended to use that and to install from command line, or will it really matter?
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@tw000 Been reading that for a few minutes already actually.
I see there there is a .pkg installer as well. Is it recommended or not recommended to use that and to install from command line, or will it really matter?
@cliffwade I forget the exact nuance where the pkg makes sense, but it's there in the docs. I use the installer script on my systems. I am the only user on all my Macs.
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@cliffwade I forget the exact nuance where the pkg makes sense, but it's there in the docs. I use the installer script on my systems. I am the only user on all my Macs.
@tw000 I'm the only user on my Macs as well. I'm really thinking I should go with the command line install. I've actually not installed or done anything at all via the command line since switching to MacOS nearly a year ago.
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@gryzor Slow as in a bad thing? Are the apps that are installed using it slow as well?
@cliffwade @gryzor Installing packages (downloading, installing requisites, etc.) can be a little pokey, but the tools themselves are plenty fast.
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@cliffwade @gryzor Installing packages (downloading, installing requisites, etc.) can be a little pokey, but the tools themselves are plenty fast.
@JustinDerrick @cliffwade if you have many packages, and don't update often, it's a bit slow to fetch, but totally useable. Also quite easy to use (if you're only interested in installing and updating programs).
I never look too much into package managers and such. I just hope they do what they're supposed to do. Homebrew does its job. I know people have had cryptic ruby error messages in the past.
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MacOS question for someone who is still relatively new to MacOS.
I own an M4 Mac Mini and am curious about Brew/HomeBrew. I see a lot of mention about it and that there's so many apps available through it that aren't necessarily available in other places.
Is it worth it to install it and use it? Is it easy to install? I assume it has to be installed via command line, which likely isn't an issue for me since I did use Linux for several years back in 2002 - 2010 or so.
Suggestions or thoughts from those that use it? I'm not a power user and certainly not a developer.
@cliffwade I personally prefer #MacPorts, you may want to check that out. There’s a lot of comparisons out there to help you make an informed choice.
The MacPorts Project -- Home
The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
(www.macports.org)
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@cliffwade I personally prefer #MacPorts, you may want to check that out. There’s a lot of comparisons out there to help you make an informed choice.
The MacPorts Project -- Home
The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
(www.macports.org)
@JensHannemann Thanks! I've been looking at it as well. Both seem very interesting and quite a bit different from each other.
