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casks are mostly for GUI or other apps that need special installation like setting up background services. I've seen it used for IT laptop provisioning to automate the installation of things like Chrome, Slack, Visual Studio, from the command line.


Casks save so much time compared to the normal way of installing Mac apps regardless of any background services.




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