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I liked the article because I have some of the same occasional but recurring desire to use my System 76 Linux laptop more, give up my smooth and efficient digital work flow based around iPad, Apple Watch, and iPhone.

My problem is that there is so much to do in my life that giving up Apple devices would slow me down too much.

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I had to give up my efficient workflow on Linux and use a Mac for work, and it's been quite frustrating.

I'd prefer to go back to a Linux laptop (mostly because homebrew is a garbage fire) but it really is nice having the integration with iOS... in particular I can send texts and take calls through my laptop. It may sound trivial but when I think about switching again that is largely what holds me back.

Check out KDE Connect. It brings some of that integration (and isn't limited to KDE)

I use Android devices, so I can send texts via a browser page. Those, and calls, used to be integrated right in Gmail, but Google wrecked all of that - which is another story for another time. I vastly prefer using a keyboard for writing texts though, and that's still possible.

Never had issues with homebrew and have been extensively using it for years now.

It’s a great piece of software I would really miss.

The people maintaining it also do great work.

Yeah, what I don't care for (among others) is that when I type "brew install something" it also upgrades every package on my system and my postgres instance can't start until the databases have been upgraded (which may fail). I know the reason they give for doing this, but no other package manager does it and its a terrible default behavior.

Can’t you set it to not do this. Even more cant you pin packages to not update at all.

I don’t think my set up upgrades everything. I install stuff still but haven’t upgraded anything in months possibly. Brew outdated command shows dozens and dozens of packages fhat need to be upgraded.

Not sure what I did.

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I don’t know why everyone loves one package manager that’s also everything for your OS like typical Linux package managers. Things get pretty chaotic. I’m not saying homebrew is the solution. Just Linux package managers seem overhyped

> My problem is that there is so much to do in my life that giving up Apple devices would slow me down too much.

Apple's crazy App Store regulations are slowing me down ...

It's funny how large corporations tend to become like bureaucratic government institutions given enough time. Well, it's not funny really.

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