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Why?

By which I mean that apt is fantastic AFAICT and totally integrated into Ubuntu and Debian. Why would you want a third party package manager?

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The apt user experience is terrible compared with brew.

How so?

The interface seems more or less identical to me.

I'm not going to deny it's good and brings great stuff to the Mac, I'm just not seeing the advantages.

Other than "in every way possible"?

The only thing that is as easy in apt as brew is installing packages.

Searching, getting info about a package, updating the list of available packages, are all much easier with homebrew.

A reasonable thing to do would be to decide what the deficiencies are and first try to talk to the developers of APT about fixing them, and then as a second (lesser) option potentially deciding to make a higher-level wrapper or supplementary tool which helps these use cases. A totally unreasonable thing to do would be to attempt to replace the entire APT ecosystem with a different tool.

> Searching

apt search ....

> getting info about a package

apt show <package>

> updating the list of available packages

apt update

> are all much easier with homebrew

You gotta be kidding me

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