Neither macOS nor Windows grew up with a package manager, so the community built them: Homebrew 6,457 for the Mac in 2009, Chocolatey 15,799 and Scoop 195,554 for Windows, and finally Microsoft's own winget 26,463 in 2020. They matter in DevOps for the same reason apt does. A new developer's laptop, a CI runner image and a build agent all need Git 1,932 , Node.js 2,131 , the Docker 514 CLI and kubectl 5,150 at known versions, and a scripted install beats a page of download links.
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macOS and Windows Managers
OS Package Managers on macOS and Windows