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"But can Linux install things via a single .exe file? HAHAH EAT IT NERD!"
- 10'ish years ago past me, before discovering the magical wonders of the package manager
Package managers are cool right until the moment you need several versions of the same app or several instances of the same version of the same app. Or something is fatally outdated in the repos. I'll stick to my standalone apps, thanks.
If that's a common requirement for you than sure do whatever works for you, I'm more than convinced that Linux has solutions for this, from the top of my head appimages, flatpaks and pkgbuilds. I'm rolling arch without a worry and it's smooth sailing.