started using a Mac as my personal machine recently after exclusively using linux for 20 years and one of the most surprising things has been that the options for creative software (making vector graphics, fonts, etc) on Mac really are much better in many cases

feels like one of those things that everyone knows but I never really internalized

(do not lecture me about the options available on Linux, I promise I know)

also i should say that using a mac has been hard for me, after using linux for 20 years there are a lot of things from Linux that I really miss (like package management, strace & friends, native container support).

I really understood how my linux system worked and I miss that.

it makes a lot of other things harder and I still haven’t found solutions i’m happy with for many of them. The tradeoff is worth it for now though

(again, not looking for advice.)

@b0rk I’d be really interested to read any experiences you’ve had in comparing the various macOS package managers, if you’ve spent time with more than one.
@a i've decided on nix for now (https://jvns.ca/#nix) but i would not necessarily recommend it. i talked about my experience in some blog posts
Julia Evans

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@b0rk Oh, cool. I’d read and enjoyed some of your m nix posts here, but had missed at least one of these longer posts. Thanks!

(Also, what an awesome index!)