Homebrew is famous for making life hard for users. It makes "design decisions" that often conflict with users' needs, all in order to live up to the personal preferences of the project leads. Personally I use asdf to manage my software on Macs. It too has also changed its design recently to become user-hostile (the command-line tool no longer prints the options for the commands, and it's full of bugs since a recent m…
Windows makes the irritations of mac seem as tiny in comparison. Especially with them starting to move more and more to push AI into monitoring and screen capturing and keylogging literally everything you do or will ever do in the operating system. A great big No Thanks to that.