Unless you are using Arch, the packages in the system package manager are often several months old. This is somewhat of a regression to anyone used to homebrew

Unless you are using Arch, the packages in the system package manager are often several months old. This is somewhat of a regression to anyone used to homebrew where packages are updated promptly. The Linux 'solution' to this problem is to compile from sources. linuxbrew is a way of automating that, if you will.