[welkinSL]

As much as I love my experience with Homebrew, it is not easy to maintain it so understandably the project tends to only support the latest few OS versions.

This can be problematic for older laptops.

Linux on the other hand tends to work better, even for older computers.

The Homebrew project is also said to be insecure, and have a tendency to be a bit authoritative, as in ignoring criticisms, but thats another story.