[asark]

To respond to the implied dig, I've spent months to years using the following distros on desktops and laptops, in no particular order:

Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake

So I've had plenty of exposure to three major package management systems and a bunch of distro-managed repos, from the perspective of a desktop user (I've used Linux on the server plenty, too, but that's less directly relevant). I've poked around in a few others in a desktop context—Slackware, Arch, Nix, probably more that I'm forgetting.

I also used Macports for over a year.

Homebrew's the most pleasant overall solution for managing user-facing desktop software that I've used, by a long shot.