Can someone explain to me like I'm five why Linux hasn't figured it out the way applications should be packed to be easily installed?

• snapcraft

  111 1,130 9.3 Python

  Package, distribute, and update any app for Linux and IoT.

  

Snap mostly installed through terminal

• flatpak

  431 4,049 9.0 C

  Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

  

Flatpak same as snap but different

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• AppImageKit

  133 8,447 2.9 C

  Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

  

AppImage closest to MacOS dmg files

• lossless-cut

  308 22,155 9.5 TypeScript

  The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

Only 1, lossless-cut

• silverblue-site

  39 44 3.8 HTML

  Discontinued Historic website for Fedora Silverblue. Now at https://gitlab.com/fedora/websites-apps/fedora-websites/fedora-websites-3.0

  

Silverblue

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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