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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by smoldesu on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:54AM (#31097841)
Different strokes for different folks. My Macbook collects dust whenever I'm home because I'd vastly prefer to do my work on a desktop Linux box. I don't have to spend my time updating coreutils, fighting Homebrew, fixing my screen sharing permissions for the 6th time this month, or really much of anything. My desktop and the systems we deploy to have almost complete parity.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by password4321 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:14PM (#31100038)
> fighting Homebrew

I switched to MacPorts when Homebrew moved on from macOS Mojave... now I wish I had done so much sooner!

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by smoldesu on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:29PM (#31100231)
MacPorts is pretty unstable (in my experience). Felt like 2011-era Arch Linux all over again...

Honestly, Nix is the only package manager I really like on Mac.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by password4321 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:41PM (#31115535)
Appreciate the anecdata! Have they straightened out the issue(s) with a read-only root directory, and installation / uninstall?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917354#30918593

> seems to be an issue of macOS and the root dir being read-only

> Took me a month to finally remove Nix from my macOS

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/6206#issuecomment-105938...

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by smoldesu on Thursday April 21, 2022 @06:42PM (#31116083)
I believe that's fixed upstream. Afaik, those issues stem from some strange FileVault/APFS inconsistencies, and have patches coming to fix it (in it's current incarnation). I don't dev on Macs unless I have to though, so I really couldn't say for sure.
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