Homebrew is a free, open-source package manager for Linux and MacOS that simplifies the installation and management of software. Think of Homebrew as a command-line version of the App Store that ...

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Vendors install it under the guise of helping you out, but mostly they do it to get money from software makers, who pay them to preinstall it. The major system builders are reducing the amount of ...