FWIW, I use Windows with the stand-alone QTR version. It works great for me. To deal with today's super-bright monitors, I simply make my own preview curve for printing. The main point I9;ve found is to have to curves layer end point be 100, 50.
I suspect monitors are sufficiently different that making your own preview layer is part of the game. I use a representative image file that has a 21-step step wedge at the bottom to calibrate. I print the file, then I use the print, under appropriate light (matching, roughly, the display conditions) to tweak the viewing curve.
I actually work up the file mostly with the monitor in its super-bright default mode. Making a "print" version is a last step. I have to walk away from the monitor for a while so that the "dull" image whites are not (mentally) compared to the bright monitor.
At any rate, in my view, dealing with how to preview the image is just part of the process that the individual has to deal with.
Paul