Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by rch on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:39AM
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I've just gone through the process of configuring a new MBP with nix-darwin and home-manager, and I'm sold. Keeping my MacOS and my NixOS environments in sync has been a nice bonus.
I still run Homebrew for a couple of services and casks, but I'm down to less than 20 packages still installed that way.
There have been a few points of friction (which I'm used to as a polyglot with lots of active projects), but the community has been very helpful with ironing those out.
Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
by pxc on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:34PM
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Nix-Darwin is great! I wish the Nix installer on macOS were (a) always multi-user and (b) came with Nix-Darwin, so it could be a more NixOS-like experience out of the box.
I still run Homebrew for a couple of services and casks, but I'm down to less than 20 packages still installed that way.
There have been a few points of friction (which I'm used to as a polyglot with lots of active projects), but the community has been very helpful with ironing those out.