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jjicetoday at 2:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

Always a joy to see security and performance as a big highlight on a release. Brew is notably slow compared to the other package managers I use, but never in an unbearable way.

I've always used it on my Mac work machines, but always used my native package managers on Linux. What are the reasons to run homebrew on Linux? Better newer package support when you're on something slower moving like a Debian distro?

I've standardized my config scripts on using language managers for those tools (go, cargo, uv), which isn't perfect, so maybe brew is worth a chance.


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andriy_kovaltoday at 4:46 PM

> Better newer package support when you're on something slower moving like a Debian distro?

exactly

tkeltoday at 2:45 PM

People have been integrating/recommending brew on immutable distributions.