I do something like this - Macs as thin clients mostly used to SSH into a Threadripper workstation running Ubuntu. Add tmux with automatic attaching upon login

I do something like this - Macs as thin clients mostly used to SSH into a Threadripper workstation running Ubuntu. Add tmux with automatic attaching upon login via ssh to make your ssh sessions persistent. Add port forwarding to your router and a cronjob to your workstation to periodically ping a dynamic dns provider (entrydns works well), and you can ssh into your workstation from anywhere you have internet access. It works really well, and means you never have to futz around with things like homebrew.