Nix as a potential Linuxbrew replacement?

Linuxbrew Coming from a MacBook, I became comfortable with Homebrew as a package manager. Over time, I built up a collection of tools in my dotfiles to maximise my productivity. When moving over to Ubuntu, I realized a couple of these tools were missing from Apt. Naturally I went with something I was most comfortable with, in this case, Linuxbrew. Linuxbrew works. It’s just your normal Homebrew on Linux. On the rare occasion, you’ll find an unsupported package. But nothing you can’t manually install. ...

April 21, 2021 · 3 min · 446 words · Rameez Khan