As a former user of both Debian (waaaaay back in the day) and Ubuntu (back in the day), I can assure you homebrew is 1000x more pleasant to use than apt-get, dp

As a former user of both Debian (waaaaay back in the day) and Ubuntu (back in the day), I can assure you homebrew is 1000x more pleasant to use than apt-get, dpkg, and the rest of that insanely baroque, non-ergonomic mess. There was even an apt-get made for the Mac -- fink. Homebrew crushed it. And now there are projects brining homebrew back over to linux. Also, a large part of what's great about the mac and homebrew is there's just one target -- it's, "oh shit, now we've all got to make our stuff work on Sierra". And there's a brief period of breakage, and then everything works. On linux, there is no one fixed target, and the breakage is constant.