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Your (awesome) comment reminds me...

Noob me has had to troubleshoot homebrew. Like keeping laptop and desktop in sync. Like fixing stuff I've somehow borked.

So I tried a handful of GUIs (wrappers). Like these two top hits:

https://corkmac.app/

https://aerolite.dev/applite

But sort of bounced off.

Noob friendly homebrew seems like such a great idea. I especially want just one strategy which spans both utils and apps (casks). Versus cobbling together Apple App Store, SetApp, and homebrew.

Those GUIs would be even more useful if they spotted and explained the config issues you listed. (I have no idea if "brew doctor" suffices.)



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