I can’t seem to find it at the moment, but I recently saw someone’s Fastfetch that had entries under packages that included pacman, flatpak, and brew.
Is there any real benefit for Homebrew on Linux?
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It depends what distro I suppose but for most use cases I don’t think it is needed on Arch. There are tons of ways you could install software. Repos, AUR, flatpak, snap, appimage, brew, nix, etc…
I suppose you could use all of them if you really wanted to but the more package sources you add, the harder it gets to manage.
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I use Flatpak, Homebrew, and Mise (I migrated from nvm and rvm) because I prefer installing libraries, packages, tools, or multiple specific versions into the user-wide directory, on my separate and larger 2 TB SSD rather than into the /usr/ directory on my primary and smaller 480 GB SSD where the OS was installed, to economise the main SSD size.
The AUR and pacman installs libraries and/or packages onto the system-wide directory. I have to be moderate when installing some packages via AUR.
Picture installing a LLM with more or less than 10 GB or a gigantic LLM with less than 40 GB onto the system-wide directory.
In the AUR and pacman packages managers, some packages are outdated. Therefore, I invoke them via Homebrew and Mise.
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