HomeBrew VS Chocolatey

In case you're not not aware of it, virtually all devs on mac use homebrew. I slide nearly seamlessly between WSL and mac depending on whether I feel like using my desktop or laptop at the moment. The differences largely boil down to whether I apt install or brew install things. And as much as I'm loathe to admit it, vscode + vim plugin these days gives emacs + evil a pretty good run for the money when it comes to extensible IDEs.

There’s no practical difference between trusting that a popular GitHub account hasn’t been compromised (see: https://brew.sh) and your distro or other package managers haven’t been compromised when it comes to machine setup. If security is that much of a priority you run your own mirrors and don’t pull from public repositories/registries. IME you want to do that for availability anyways if this is for work. Nothing worse than a failed build for a hot-fix because some package registry is temporarily offline.

Others have offered solutions, but for future reference the actual Terminal commands that failed would be useful; "File not found" sounds like a path error, "Command not found" sounds fixable via Homebrew or Macports

TL;DR, about the section that states software from other UNIX-like OSes is hard to port to MacOS, how about homebrew and macports?

First, you’ll want to install some base dependencies for your operating system. We will use brew 27 for this. If you don’t have brew installed you can do so by running:

Prerequisites: Ensure you have Homebrew installed on your computer. It is a package that enables you to install various applications not provided by Apple.

Get it with Homebrew:

I installed iTerm2 and zsh shell with Prezto and I love my command line on OSX I use homebrew to install any tools that are missing and use pyenv to manage my python version (which I also do on Linux) that and the clang/gcc from the OSX command line tools and I pretty much have a full Un*x shell for anything I need to do

Personally, I like using Terminal to get things done lol. Before you continue reading, please note that I only know how to do this with homebrew and terminal...

homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS. It's painfully slow compared to linux package managers but it works. Macports is an alternative and Nix works on MacOS as well. They can be used to download both terminal and GUI applications.

chocolatey

keep in mind there is chocolatey for windows too

If you haven't already, you can use winget (probably installed already) and chocolatey on Windows.

1/2023 - https://chocolatey.org/

As for the software downloads on reinstall, services such as Ninite and Windows Remix can do this for you and require minimal effort to generate and download the standalone installer. Additional tools such as package managers could have quick scripts or one-liners set up to automate the use of them so they can install tons of up-to-date software similar to the likes of Ninite and Windows Remix. Some package managers for Windows include Windows’ own package manager, Windows Package Manager (“winget”), and community-based alternatives Chocolatey (will put applications in User folder, may require Administrator privileges) or Scoop (isolated installed apps outside of User folder, shouldn’t require Administrator privileges).

In Windows, you need choco. Run as administrator:

All you have to do is go to youtube, or any other streaming website, let it detect the stream, copy the ffmpg/yt-dlp which is displayed by the addon, and paste it into your command prompt where ffmpg/yt-dlp is installed. I used chocolatey to install both of those and recommend you do the same. it installs them and creates a path so you can execute it from any directory,

Chocolatey

It's also available in Chocolatey and Scoop.