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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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