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Context? Homebrew is working fine on Sonoma here. I do not get that or a similar message.

Apparently hating on homebrew is super popular right now. I run brew on osx and linux and have zero issues.

Why would anyone hate homebrew? The only issue I had was a few years ago when they changed from running as root to running as user and it broke some permissions. Then they released a guide on fixing the problem and that was it.

I didn't even know Homebrew ran on Linux. Why do you choose Homebrew for your Linux distro instead of its default package manager?

More recent packages, for one. I need to use Ubuntu 20.04 for work, and it's easier to get the latest versions I want from linuxbrew than from apt. E.g. clang is on 10.0 from apt and 16.0 from brew. Similarly, fish is 3.1.0 vs 3.6.1.

This is my exact use case. I need up to date software and I don't want to wait for a package or roll my own package.

The Homebrew UX is great as long as you're on their happy path. Speaking from experience, as soon as I see the warning message I shared at the top, Homebrew gets way worse.

For instance, installing ripgrep now requires building the latest version of Rust from source, which takes three hours per Rust version; installing Pandoc requires building and storing the whole GHC; etc.

No one is talking about issues here.

He is talking about MAC OS 11 Big Sur

macOS or MacOS but never MAC OS or MACOS. MAC is an acronym for Media Access Control (as in: MAC address), Mac (or mac) is an abbreviation of Macintosh.

MAC is also a cosmetics company (https://www.maccosmetics.com/). It can be many things.

Another good reason to properly style things.

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