iTerm2 VS HomeBrew

Maybe a different terminal emulator like iterm2 for one with tons of features or something like kitty or alacritty for a lighter weight terminal.

1. Install iTerm2

Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH iTerm2 hyper Apple Terminal (pre installed on OS) Linux Terminal (pre installed on OS) Windows Terminal PuTTY

macpaste for mouse copy and paste https://github.com/lodestone/macpaste and to have terminal where its own mouse paste can be disabled, iTerm2 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2

Moreover, there are tools were made on top of those to provide more functionalities, and fill some of the gaps, for instance, oh-my-zsh, Prezto, oh-my-fish, and much more. However, the default embedded terminal in macOS is still lacking something. That's why iTerm and other terminal like Hyper. It provides you a set of customization to boost your productivity.

I use iTerm2 as my terminal, it is a great alternative to the default macOS terminal and has a lot of features - customization.

Amongst newer 21st century OSS terminal emulators, there has been some work at revisiting better ways to encode raster graphics over telnet. In particular, you might want to look at George Nachman's iTerm2 and Kovid Goyal's Kitty, both of which support Sixel and their own newly-designed custom protocols for raster graphics, among other newfangled terminal features. Wezterm, another recent OSS terminal emulator, also support's Kitty's protocol.

It is Unix. Note that if you use Bash, you'll need to install the latest version yourself, Zsh is the default shell these days. Homebrew is a common package manager. And while macOS ships with a terminal app, called Terminal, others can be installed. I prefer iTerm. Good luck and have fun!

Don't worry too much about software, you'll find what you need when the need arises. Maybe install Homebrew, it will come in handy later.

Anyhow, I managed to get to the point where I need to run brew, but I don't have that installed. When I go to the linked site https://brew.sh and try to run the command to install it, I just get "Invalid variable name".

I recommend installing homebrew so you can install/update applications from the command line.

Brew & macports have libvirt & virt-manager that are used to manage qemu via GUI.

To install the Homebrew package manager, see: link

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: