Eric Van Johnson: “Am I the only one who prefers using ’brew’ for package manag…”

Eric Van Johnson @ericvanjohnson2d

Am I the only one who prefers using ’brew’ for package management on my Linux machine. Obviously I use the OS package manager for anything I might need system-wide, but 99% of the things I install only need to be user-level. For those who weren’t aware this was a thing https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux. Same install command as macOS.

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Hadrien @hadrien-shifumi2d

Same here, brew "just works", that's all I'm asking.

Pauline Vos @paulinevos2d

Nope, same

Aleks Rūtiņš @aleksrutins2d

I personally like pixi, which is also user-level, but provides isolated conda environments for everything: https://prefix.dev/ I run GNOME OS, too, so there isn't really a 'system' package manager to speak of other than a couple of updated overlays. Easier to not break things…

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