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How would it knacker the macOS desktop? I'm honestly curious, as I view brew as an indispensable tool on pretty much anything I do on a daily basis. I don't see it as replacing anything, but rather as supplementing macOS in so many aspects.

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It’s more about keeping the machine clean. All systems “creep” and turn up a mess if you don’t maintain them well. So in this case of brew it brings a lot of stuff in that isn’t vendor supported. Which is backed up with time machine. If it ends up borked (which happened to me a couple of times) it’s a lot to unpick. Thus I prefer to avoid and use native tools to the platform.

All the native tools I need are available from the package manager on a Linux distribution which is far easier to reproduce therefore I prefer to do that there.

Also honestly I rather like the native BSD stuff. It’s very complete.

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