That's fine - and why I use macOS as a desktop: because Homebrew consistently gives me up-to-date versions of the software I want. If I were to use Linux on the

That's fine - and why I use macOS as a desktop: because Homebrew consistently gives me up-to-date versions of the software I want. If I were to use Linux on the desktop, it would be a distribution which also allows this with minimal fuss - almost certainly not a Debian derivative. I understand the _reasoning_ behind the distribution model - I just don't think it works very well, and apparently nor do all the people who use PPAs in the course of everyday use to get up-to-date software. It's also worth noting that FreeBSD does not have this problem - ports are updated _much_ more often than most Linux distributions seem to be.