Yeah once you've used Nix[OS] and home-manager, it's hard to go back to apt or brew or the dreaded "sudo make install" without feeling like you need to have a shower afterwards. And I was a loyal Ubuntu person for like 15 years. It's especially true if you're a dev installing and uninstalling all day long.

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pzmarzly 6 hours ago | parent [-]

With homebrew, you can have Brewfile that can serve as declarative source of truth.

I try to install all software via homebrew, mise (https://mise.jdx.dev/), and scoop (https://scoop.sh/), and setting up a new machine now takes me minutes. Meanwhile I don't need to deal with Nix language.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> With homebrew, you can have Brewfile that can serve as declarative source of truth.

for homebrew, while Nix configuration is for everything. I never used a Brewfile before, so looked at https://github.com/Lissy93/Brewfile/blob/master/Brewfile but it just looks like a list of packages. What about the configuration for those packages? Or your own custom patches for them? Runtime parameters? Environment variables?

There is so much more going on in the typical developer environment that it doesn't seem like (to me, an uneducated fool) Brewfile would be enough to actually serve as a declarative source of truth, except for Homebrew-specific things.

	▲	the_gipsy 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Versions? Compatibilities? Just pulling latest doesn't cut it.