[yulaow]

I don't think homebrew has more user than say apt or pacman. Maybe there are a bit more people running osx than linux, but much of them are not devs or "power users" and never run homebrew.

[toyg]

Apt I can agree, it's still the gold standard of package manager and powers the most popular distributions out there in bajillion cloud instances.

Pacman, erm what? Arc is a niche of a niche. I'd bet Alpine's package manager sees more action than that - let alone yum/rpm.

[wejick]

I have friends working on debian based distro, following their discussions on a lot of dpkg packaging intricacies is crazy. However that also means it's mature piece of software that handle many cases under the sky of software packaging and distribution.

[zests]

Besides, we all know that pacman is nothing compared to the one true package manager, portage.

[amw-zero]

Does it make homebrew less valuable if there are other package managers for other OS’s that have more users?

[Jestar342]

The very premise of this (sub)thread is one of "more users == providing more value" so .. yes, for this conversation, it matters.