Fresh off the release of Homebrew 4.3.0 it’s time for a quick update! @m2Giles led the effort for shipping homebrew out of the box with Aurora, Bluefin, and Bazzite. Up to now we had to depend on you to manually install homebrew, but now it just comes right on there on a clean install. Existing use…

I personally prefer Nix, but for the target users of Aurora, Bluefin, and Bazzite I do agree that Brew (and pip/pipx) makes more sense. (btw, IMHO Aurora should just be combined with Bluefin - just like how everything’s Atomic in Fedora, and Bazzite just have different editions).

So if I previously installed brew with just, I don’t have to do anything, right?

Correct. This makes it so the ujust brew is no longer needed for setting up brew.

[image] fenglengshun: I personally prefer Nix What are your favorite applications you installed with Nix?

Hey all, Please disregard this post, I was either outdated or completely wrong about this… XD… Sorry all! Nix with SELinux is kind of a pain, and disabling SELinux is a no-go for most people (or if it isn’t, it probably should be). I think Brew is a good compromise. That being said, for anyone …

[image] jedi453: That being said, for anyone interested, there’s a guide here on how to setup the Nix Package Manager without completely disabling SELinux. I don’t understand why you need all that. I’ve just ran the determinate systems nix installer and it takes cares of everything…

[image] jedi453: Nix with SELinux is kind of a pain, and disabling SELinux is a no-go for most people (or if it isn’t, it probably should be). Could you expand on the issue, please? I have been using Nix from Bluefin-DX and didn’t mess at all with SELinux. Am I missing something?

Sorry @storopoli and @f0nzie , Looks like my info was out of date. This is what I had to do a year or two ago to get Nix working. I’ll correct the post. Thanks, Dan

[image] f0nzie: What are your favorite applications you installed with Nix? I pretty much manage most of my CLI tools through Nix. My order of preference goes: Flatpak > Nix > Conty > Distrobox (though I’ve been trying to slim down what I have installed to just what I always need). I also lik…

It’s nice that Homebrew is available, but I haven’t found anything there I couldn’t find in Flathub or in an Arch container, and I’m concerned that now that it’s standard equipment, there may now be “feature creep” of dependencies on Homebrew. I’ve never owned a Mac so I never had an interest in ex…

Brew is now installed by default in Aurora, Bluefin, and Bazzite

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storopoli May 18, 2024, 4:52pm 7

I don’t understand why you need all that. I’ve just ran the determinate systems nix installer and it takes cares of everything…

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