Homebrew is a third-party tool neither written nor endorsed by Apple that does hacky things and causes breakage with things as simple and fundamental as a [multi user install].
> Settings for notifications and obnoxious start-up stuff, all in one place and in your hands, not Microsoft's and in most cases, not even Apple's. It is better than Windows.
Right-click on Start - Task Manager - Startup apps. Right-click on notification icon - Notifications settings. I am not "off." You just don't know Windows. I know MacOS with all its illogical UX.
No idea why you brought up Linux. It's [less secure] than both macOS and Windows and much less secure than Android and iOS, so I wouldn't use it as a desktop OS to begin with, and it's not really relevant to the discussion.
[multi user install]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41840479/how-to-use-home...
[less secure]: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html