My search for a MacBook Pro alternative

Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative by dilap on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:29PM (#13143454)

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.

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Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative by lern_too_spel on Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:55AM (#13144284)

There is no way to install all updates to caskroom apps in homebrew. Apt with PPA just works.

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Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative by rockdoe on Saturday December 10, 2016 @09:16PM (#13149221)

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?

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