Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative
by dilap on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:29PM
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As a former user of both Debian (waaaaay back in the day) and Ubuntu (back in the day), I can assure you homebrew is 1000x more pleasant to use than apt-get, dpkg, and the rest of that insanely baroque, non-ergonomic mess.
There was even an apt-get made for the Mac -- fink. Homebrew crushed it. And now there are projects brining homebrew back over to linux.
Also, a large part of what's great about the mac and homebrew is there's just one target -- it's, "oh shit, now we've all got to make our stuff work on Sierra". And there's a brief period of breakage, and then everything works.
On linux, there is no one fixed target, and the breakage is constant.
Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative
by lern_too_spel on Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:55AM
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There is no way to install all updates to caskroom apps in homebrew. Apt with PPA just works.
Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative
by rockdoe on Saturday December 10, 2016 @09:16PM
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You get stuff like not really being able to install qt4 and qt5 at the same time with Homebrew. Also the "just one target" thing is definitely the same with a Linux distro. Were you trying to install random .debs or something?
Sierra is the latest OSX release (so not sure why you are talking about El Capitan). Apple deliberately broke up the OS into a lot of smaller processes to help with scheduling and isolation. It's a good thing. And given they are background daemons not sure how they would clutter your screen or distract you. As for ZFS you can use OpenZFS.
And Ubutnu has APT which is what Homebrew was based on so it should more than meet your needs. And as for drivers I've never heard of a situation where fans weren't working in Ubuntu.