How is Homebrew any different from than apt? Both are package managers. Neither OS provides all of the tools a dev needs, so regardless of your OS choice, you will using a package manager to acquire your complete toolset. So, why do you recoil at Homebrew, and not apt?
I recoil at Homebrew because it fails to successfully install relatively mainstream software that it claims to support (mysql, in my case). I do not recoil from apt because it regularly and repeatedly both cleanly installs and removes any software it claims to support.
