Back in the day, I used snapd, which is similar to Mac's Homebrew. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

My personal favourite IDE for java is Intellej Idea. Apart from not demanding the extra extension, It was designed special for Java and Java related languages so it runs java smoothly with great compilation time. So lets install it. Make sure you have snap before installing it. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Linux Mints App Store is full of GUI programs, Snap Store ist full of it, Flathub is full of it. Source: 7 months ago

You are being lazy. But I recommend bringing your ass directly to snapcraft.io and reading those documents in the Learn section!! Source: 7 months ago

It works on MacOS/Windows, unlike systemd. Therefore it's well suited for development environment setups for polyglot teams. https://devenv.sh/ is one example that uses it to do just that. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Sounds like nix using devenv[1] also would solve this problem. https://devenv.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Https://devenv.sh/ and nix in general are great for setting up dev environments. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

2) A way to run services apps depend on (databases, job runners, cache etc). I am going to suggest one of the Nix based tools that do those things:

  - https://devenv.sh/ (I use this at work).

- Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago