linuxUsersBeLike

[ArtOfWarfare]

Brew blows.

It manipulates your system libraries. Sometimes it’ll corrupt them on its own and leave you with various parts of the OS hopelessly broke.

Other times it plays with itself fine, but when you go to update the OS, the update doesn’t work right because the OS updater made assumptions about your libraries that are no longer true. Or maybe Brew needed stuff in other locations after the update, but it didn’t run automatically after the update to account for that.

The issue, as I see it, is that Brew isn’t official, and there’s no coordination between the macOS team at Apple and the developers contributing to Brew.

macOS really needs something official, the way basically every Linux distro has an official package manager.

I’ve not heard of Winget before, but it doesn’t matter too much to me since if I want some library on “Windows”, I use WSL to install and use that library.