> This isn't a good dichotomy though. Either "Build it from source" or "Wait for a professional 3rd party to package it for you".
Somebody has to do the work. Apparently you won't accept it for that to be the developer, the user, or a "professional third party" (whatever "professional" means here). What exactly do you want?
> Personally I put my support behind flatpak for GUI, mise for CLI/TUI, but it's not a perfect solution and I occasionally bail out to homebrew/linuxbrew.
So third parties. Things that have reinvented "distributions", arguably badly. Are you saying they're not "professional"?
Somebody has to do the work. Apparently you won't accept it for that to be the developer, the user, or a "professional third party" (whatever "professional" means here). What exactly do you want?
> Personally I put my support behind flatpak for GUI, mise for CLI/TUI, but it's not a perfect solution and I occasionally bail out to homebrew/linuxbrew.
So third parties. Things that have reinvented "distributions", arguably badly. Are you saying they're not "professional"?