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MacOS question for someone who is still relatively new to MacOS.

I own an M4 Mac Mini and am curious about Brew/HomeBrew. I see a lot of mention about it and that there's so many apps available through it that aren't necessarily available in other places.

Is it worth it to install it and use it? Is it easy to install? I assume it has to be installed via command line, which likely isn't an issue for me since I did use Linux for several years back in 2002 - 2010 or so.

Suggestions or thoughts from those that use it? I'm not a power user and certainly not a developer.

#MacOS #Mac #Brew #HomeBrew #Software

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The Peter Pan of Nerdery™

@cliffwade It’s great, it works fine, it’s not slow and it was one of the first things I ever installed when I got the Mac. Easy to install things, easy to remove things, one command to update everything including itself, free and trusted, no reason not to install it.

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The Peter Pan of Nerdery™Feb 22

@cliffwade People are possibly saying it’s slow because if you do brew upgrade —greedy (upgrade all packages ie “casks”), if there’s a slow package in there - because it pulls it from the package’s home site - it could be slow for just that package. Brew is literally the same thing as apt-get update.

XNViewMP is slow to update for example. Not brew’s fault. The world won’t end because something took 20 seconds to update.