niranjanaryan

How to migrate from Homebrew to Nix

#homebrew #brew #nix #nixos

I'll be honest with ya'll, you don't wanna get away from Homebrew completely, yes, I'll explain!

I've been using Nix package manager in all my MacOS machines about 3-4 months and I always kept Homebrew installed. You see, Nix is a very good package manager and with its home-manager, it becomes a good config farm as well. However, installing & managing GUI & unfree apps via Nix has been a quite painful experience for me. Sometimes, it wouldn't run properly, crash or wouldn't even start. Also, Nix doesn't have most of GUI packages that Homebrew has. Therefore, I keep homebrew and use it only for its "casks" registry to install GUI & unfree apps whereas having nix to manage dot file configurations and cli apps.

Dragost

PDF Manual Downloader Script

This script is designed to download PDF manuals from wdhmedia websites. It can be run on any operating system that supports Python, maybe.

This is not the most correct or fastest way to download PDFs, but it works.

Tested with python 3.10 and Poetry.