If you're looking for a fantastic dev-focused linux distro, I can't say enough good things about Bluefin Linux
I hope no serious developers on linux ever use homebrew, it's the worst package manager by far.
Most package managers support versioning and keeping old versions of installs around, but not homebrew. That's why I'm boycotting it at this point, got burnt by it too many times.
I'd rather use pacman or apt-get or pkgsrc or nix or any other package manager than homebrew.
If you change where Homebrew installs, then you are on your own because they don't support changing the install path.
You can't use pacman, apt or pkgsrc on image based distros. And nix is a big headache.
Of course anything that can easily run in a container is better, but I use brew for the stuff that doesn't and have few problems.
While homebrew isn't perfect, it's still a lot better than manually compiling every new version of a tool until the distros repo gets the update, or following custom install instructions for every tool (and then manually managing updates).
But I'm new to having Linux as a daily dev driver (only servers before), so if I'm missing an obvious fix to get 99% of tools in their up-to-date version installed and managed on Fedora (or ideally, anywhere), please let me know.
It's "Container-driven development" done right - containerized applications and shells _feel_ native via Distrobox (which gives them access to the host FS, network, hardware, etc by default) but without the risks of native development causing dependency conflicts. And if I screw something up, I can just spin up a new container.