To be fair, if you work with only Mac App Store apps and brew-managed packages, it's a similar (but less uniform) experience on Mac (and the `mas` utility fills

To be fair, if you work with only Mac App Store apps and brew-managed packages, it's a similar (but less uniform) experience on Mac (and the `mas` utility fills in for the App Store on the CLI). And things are better and worse depending on your Linux distro (ref: Snaps in Ubuntu). The problem is a lot of useful software isn't (for good reason) available on the App Store.