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Deciding to make a switch to new Macbook Air from an linux laptop

Homebrew draw.io NixOS
  1. The missing package manager for macOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    In terms of package management you natively only have the App Store and manually installing apps from the internet, which is rather limiting, especially for command line utilities. I would suggest looking into a third party package management system if you find yourself using a lot of third party apps frequently. I personally use nix along with home manager; there's also homebrew and macports.

    #Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 876 social mentions

  2. Online diagramming application
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    For UI design, you have plenty of online options (Figma, draw.io, etc.), unless you mean actually creating the UI assets, in which case you have even more options (including GIMP and Inkscape).

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 714 social mentions

  3. 3
    25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    In terms of package management you natively only have the App Store and manually installing apps from the internet, which is rather limiting, especially for command line utilities. I would suggest looking into a third party package management system if you find yourself using a lot of third party apps frequently. I personally use nix along with home manager; there's also homebrew and macports.

    #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 242 social mentions

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