Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺

Using Homebrew on Debian Linux (Zorin)?

Pros? Cons? Why? Why not?

(I'm considering using it and want to hear people's thoughts, in case you wonder why I'm asking)

#Debian #Zorin #Homebrew

Apr 13 at 7:12pmWeb
Show threadPeter K.2d ago
@leanderlindahl Depends on which problem you want to solve? Personally I like a combination of distrobox and flatpak for things that aren't in repos.
Show threadLeander Lindahl 🇪🇺1d ago

@vagnretur I have both Mac and Zorin and have tried all sorts of ways of installing node and nvm the last six months. Last time I reinstalled I used brew on a Mac and it felt like it worked well and was smooth. Now I need to install it again on my Debian (Zorin) Linux and was tempted to simply do it the exact same way.

Brew install nvm

But then it's apt-install that is "native", so I wondered why some people use brew and some apt

Show threadPeter K.1d ago
@leanderlindahl Homebrew should have newer packages in general, Zorin is based on Ubuntu 24.04 so it has nodejs 18.19.1, and homebrew is on 25.9.0.
Show threadLeander Lindahl 🇪🇺1d ago
@vagnretur that's very interesting. I should probably go ahead and use homebrew then. The irony is that homebrew was created as a reaction to Linux package managers wasn't it? So that Mac folks could use the same way of installing stuff.