Nothing, I’m a nix user. Here’s what I have installed in general though
macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
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Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#12Basically everything. It’s by far my preferred way to install and manage apps. It has its criticisms, but it’s easy to use and fast enough for the amount I need to use it.
+1
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#13due to its analytics, one can see the number of installs on formulae.brew.sh e.g. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/awscli but I don't offhand know how to show "most popular across formulae" I also don't offhand know if those "Build Errors" are their bottle build errors, or it reports all build errors I'm not ignoring your question, but it's also meaningless to post any such thing on HN since $ brew list -1 | wc -l 68…
Like this? https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#14What great way to do reconnaissance about your own machine so that the hackers don't have to!
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#15New system, not much so far:
kevin@Kevins-MacBook-Pro ~> brew leaves
fish
maven
renameRe: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#16I try to avoid installing anything with brew, because I can't install a new package without first upgrading all my other packages, which often leads to one of them breaking in not-so-fun ways (e.g. an openssl upgrade breaking my Python installation).
# Do not automatically upgrade anything
export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#17It's on my profile
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#18ack antiword aspell automake bash bash-completion bison chruby cmake cmake-docs coreutils curl dbus docbook-xsl dos2unix exiftool fetchmail ffmpeg findutils fortune gawk gcc gdbm git global gnu-typist gnupg grep httpd imagemagick jq libffi libgccjit libvterm libxml2 links lynx mailutils mairix make msmtp nano nmap nmh node openssl@1.1 openssl@3.0 orc pipx pkg-config pngcrush procmail qrencode ripgrep rsync ruby-install sevenzip solargraph tern texinfo tmux tree tree-sitter watch wget xml2 yt-dlp zint zlib
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#19I try to avoid installing anything with brew, because I can't install a new package without first upgrading all my other packages, which often leads to one of them breaking in not-so-fun ways (e.g. an openssl upgrade breaking my Python installation).
I have used this [0] successfully to "pin" casks from being upgraded - my use case was Docker needing > macOS 10.
It allowed me to keep the version of Docker working while other casks could be changed
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#20every piece of software I install, which as of today is 139 packages.