[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> Seems like telling on yourself. Compare the results: the software available on Linux distributions vs. the Windows freeware market.

Obvious choice? WINE wasn't invented because Linux had a great software library.

> And what if that developer isn't trustworthy in some way?

Then you probably shouldn't use their software at all. But that isn't necessarily realistic, which is why I also advocate for sandboxed applications by default, something mobile got right.

> Just one example, but I've sometimes gotten updates for Firefox on Arch Linux before the official binaries got released.

Sure, maybe that happens sometimes for big and popular projects, but there are a lot of more niche projects where what is in the repo is years out of date. Hell, I have to get qbittorrent-nox from a PPA to be up to date and that isn't even very niche.