> IMO the two biggest pains with MacOS is (1) brew is not as good as any other p...

		hamandcheese 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use ... > IMO the two biggest pains with MacOS is (1) brew is not as good as any other package manager in my experience (mostly in bugs that need manual fixing) I've been happily not using brew for a couple years now. Nix can function as a brew replacement without much fuss. However it lacks a simple alternative to brew services (for that you have to enter the rabbit hole which is home-manager).

I like devbox (jetlify), you get nix with its packages but also integrates process compose for running services.