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Just because it’s better than windows doesn’t make it good (lemmy.ml)
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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

unpopular opinion. homebrew is better than apt or yum.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Probably why it's an option on some distros

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

Sorry you're wrong 😛

Homebrew only supports one user (AFAIK). We had shared iMacs at work, and some stuff was installed using homebrew with the permissions modified so everyone could access what was installed. One night I got bored at work and upgraded some things... Which changed the permissions back to only the user that installed the cask (or whatever) and broke the terminal and other things for everyone else. My coworker was pissed the next time he saw me.

Any sane Linux package manager (I'm not counting Snap and FlatPak) installs stuff system-wide and all users can access the installed packages.

Linux is inherently a multi-user OS but Apple apparently stripped that feature from OS X.

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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