u/goldmurder

i wanted to say first that I find macOS probably the most superior Unix(*-like) OS now. it’s beautiful, pretty much polished, standartised, convenient to use, but the only thing what bothers me about it is absence of native official package manager for plenty of CLI software. yeah, I know, that homebrew exists, but It often gives you outdated packages and feels (and is) like a third-party, foreign & not integrated at all software. I mean, is that bad to take a responsibility for official package manager of the macOS like for example windows did (winget)? One of the few things I respect windows for. Just to make things more transparent, easy and integrated. What do you think? How would it look like if it really will appear in macOS? Or should it even be added?

I was thinking recently about all of those atomic immutable distributions, and the idea itself sounds pretty nice, but i‘m a little bit frightened with all of that fragmentation (even relative to linux) this approach provides: you use flatpak, appimages, distrobox, tarballs, even snaps to get software on this kind of a system. the cleanest approach to installing software on immutable distributions i see myself is nix, since it can work per user (like homebrew I think). Is it possible to get xbps working like this? I mean, does it provide such functionality at the moment?

Hello, folks! I’m thinking about replacing my current rtl8851be, which is very new and isn’t supported by any of BSD’s system by a bit older ax210 or ax200 one. But as I know, they both aren’t supported in NetBSD’s 10th release. Is 11th release‘s situation any different?