diff --git a/home/base/gui/terminal/alacritty/default.nix b/home/base/gui/terminal/alacritty/default.nix
index b8108310..9756eba5 100644
--- a/home/base/gui/terminal/alacritty/default.nix
+++ b/home/base/gui/terminal/alacritty/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-{pkgs, ...}:
+{
+  pkgs,
+  pkgs-unstable,
+  ...
+}:
 ###########################################################
 #
 # Alacritty Configuration
@@ -22,6 +26,7 @@
 {
   programs.alacritty = {
     enable = true;
+    package = pkgs-unstable.alacritty;
     # https://alacritty.org/config-alacritty.html
     settings = {
       general.import = [
diff --git a/home/base/tui/zellij/default.nix b/home/base/tui/zellij/default.nix
index d02f53f6..556517c8 100644
--- a/home/base/tui/zellij/default.nix
+++ b/home/base/tui/zellij/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
-{pkgs-stable, ...}: let
+{
+  pkgs,
+  pkgs-stable,
+  ...
+}: let
   shellAliases = {
     "zj" = "zellij";
   };
 in {
   programs.zellij = {
     enable = true;
-    # Revert to old v0.40.1 to fix:
+    # [Linux] Revert to old v0.40.1 to fix:
     # https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/3592
-    package = pkgs-stable.zellij;
+    package =
+      if pkgs.stdenv.isLinux
+      then pkgs-stable.zellij
+      else pkgs.zellij;
   };
   # auto start zellij in nushell
   programs.nushell.extraConfig = ''
diff --git a/modules/darwin/apps.nix b/modules/darwin/apps.nix
index 2fd4fd63..7dabc0ac 100644
--- a/modules/darwin/apps.nix
+++ b/modules/darwin/apps.nix
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ in {
   # homebrew need to be installed manually, see https://brew.sh
   # https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/homebrew.nix
   homebrew = {
-    enable = true; # disable homebrew for fast deploy
+    enable = false; # disable homebrew for fast deploy
 
     onActivation = {
       autoUpdate = true; # Fetch the newest stable branch of Homebrew's git repo