My first experience with homebrew (as a non-mac user) was setting up a build agent a few years ago. It seemed like a nice way to get everything going, as well a

My first experience with homebrew (as a non-mac user) was setting up a build agent a few years ago. It seemed like a nice way to get everything going, as well as being analogous to the ways it was setup on other OSes (using packages to manage the SDKs/tooling). I think my mistake was treating it like any other unix-y [multi-user] system, because I installed everything with one account, then created a dedicated 'build' account for the agent to run as -- exactly as our linux (and even, ahem, Windows) agents were setup. This caused all kinds of failures for the 'build' user as everything was owned by and had permissions setup for the first user. I came away kind of disgusted at the horrible patterns in use. Windows has spent two decades cleaning up that mistake, and here's a comparably new system making the same, awful mistakes? User-writable/owned stuff goes in ~. Period.