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Fedora releases new versions every 6 months, and unlike Ubuntu none of them have a support window longer than 13 months. My point here is, Fedora 32 is already unsupported and has been for 5 years. You could also never install Python 3.13 on it, because Python 3.13 didn't exist yet when F32 was in use.

The current Fedora release is 43, and the only other supported releases are 42 and 41. (But F41 support ends in two weeks.) Because of this rapid release cycle, it's best not to mentionany specific Fedora versions. They become outdated far too fast.

(Though, the other release mentioned by name is Ubuntu 16.10, which has also been out of support for many years. Even Ubuntu's 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04 LTS releases are past the end of their standard support lifetimes, and have moved into extended support. So, mentioning specific Ubuntu releases is perhaps also best avoided.)

This is no longer true for Fedora, and I doubt it is for Ubuntu either. Since Python 2 passed end-of-life,pip ==pip3 pretty much everywhere, withpip2 possibly being available forpython2.7.

(Note that runningpip3, like runningpython3, is always an option to ENSURE you're using the Python 3 version of the tool. It's just no longernecessary as Python 3 is the default everywhere now.)

This won't work — the deadsnakes repo doesn'thave apython3 package. It provides Python versionsother than the one the distro provides aspython3, using package names likepython3.9 orpython3.11. (For 22.04 it provides all butpython3.10 which is the distropython3, and for 24.04 it omitspython3.12 because that's that release'spython3. But to install any deadsnakes Python package, you have to pick a specific version.)

I don't think this is a good change, on its own. As the doc says, macOS between those versionsdoes come with Python 2.7, specifically. There's no Python 3 on macOS 10.8-12.3 unless you install it. On those macOS systems,/usr/bin/python ==/usr/bin/python2 ==/usr/bin/python2.7.

Most users today will have alater version of macOS, which will come with Python 3, but the changes here don't sufficiently document that fact.

To cover more current releases, the docs should either drop any mentions of macOS 10.8-12.3 to go with the removal of the Python 2 language, or there should be additional text added that's specific to macOS 13 and higher, which discusses the default systempython3.

The OSX GCC Installer project stopped being supported when Apple released the Command Line Tools as a separate package. It was last available for OS X 10.7, and today there are no longer any installers provided by the project. All mentions of it should be deleted from the docs.

(GitHub messes up suggested changes for ranges outside the PR, so this can't be applied as it's shown here. The suggestion is actually a change for lines 29-38.)

The default branch name has been changed, and the current recommended command line is,

/bin/bash -c"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

The Homebrew install script provides instructions on how to modify the user's profile to insert the right paths, and the instructions here will bewrong for most installs.

(On macOS 10.15 when usingzsh as the shell, it displays this:)

$/bin/bash -c"$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"[...]==> Next steps:- Run these commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:    echo >> /Users/ferd/.zprofile    echo 'eval "$(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/ferd/.zprofile    eval "$(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)"- Run brew help to get started- Further documentation:    https://docs.brew.sh

It's probably better to just say something like, "When Homebrew finishes installing, be sure to follow the instructions it displays to correctly update your$PATH."

Especially on newer macOS releases which already provide a Python 3, it might be better to structure these docs more like the Linux docs, and discuss the possibility of installingadditional Python versions by specific number. Homebrew allowsbrew install python@3.9,brew install python@3.14, etc. to install additional interpreter versions, just like on Fedora or Ubuntu-with-deadsnakes.

brew install python will install whatever Python version is Homebrew'sdefault (currentlypython@3.14), so it's still a useful command, but it's no longer "install[ing] Python 3" if Python 3 is already preinstalled by Apple. It's installingHomebrew's default Python 3.