MacOS Catalina with Maxima and Latex on MikTex

Hi other Mac people!

So has anyone managed to get Maxima (the algebra scientific math calculator) working properly on Catalina (without having to hack about in the Terminal too much)???

How about any Latex installations? I've given up on MikTex (my MikTex installation crashes as soon as Texworks loads a file) and feel like Mac-Tex is also going to be a nightmare of "Time Vampire" terminal sessions hacking about at arcane file settings and app contents... Rather than actually completing any actual work!!!!

I think those who have them installed before upgrade may have a slightly better (but still broken) time.

File permissions are a nightmare under Catalina. If an app doesn't come from the App Store, it seems it's very likely to get broken.

I've luckily got bootcamp win 10 on my mac here (where both of these apps work great), but I'd really like to spend most of my time in apple's UI.

This forces me to spend less and less time on MacOS! It's just too awkward to get stuff working.

Yes I know the "app" authors should update everything to magically "work". But these are open-source and very important "app"s for academics and scientists - the authors are obviously very busy keeping the Linux and Windows versions working - Mac users are last priority.

So the MacBook "Pro" becomes, yet again, A huge bit less "Pro" and more "consumer".

Sorry for the rant, just want to know I'm not alone here? Anyone?