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@andrewnez You’ve missed out on a perfectly good opportunity to overengineer something simple.
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Mentioned in the post and worth your time: @zhongruoyu put huge effort into Homebrew's ARM64 Linux support and helping make it a Tier 1 platform. His FOSDEM 2025 talk on that work is excellent.
Homebrew describes itself as The Package Manager for Everywhere now. I went through our public analytics to see how well that holds up.
@UniversalBlue images are about a quarter of non-CI Linux events, with Bazzite alone at roughly one in five. They ship brew by default and it shows.
If you maintain something that ships Homebrew, I’d like to hear from you.
https://starhaven.io/blog/2026-07-27-the-package-manager-for-everywhere/
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@andrewnez You have a gift for writing things that cause me great mental anguish. Excellent piece.
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@andrewnez @mikemcquaid Working on the impossible again, huh?