[aulin]

I've been working with Linux since more than 20 years and I don't recall any cultural aversion against binaries, at least the ones shipped by your distribution.

Compiling everything has always been a very niche hobby limited to mostly Gentoo and similar distribution users.

What we've maybe always being diffident about is app bundles, big images of apps with all their dependencies most of which duplicates of already installed libraries.

But I guess we're moving on from that with snap, flatpack and the likes gaining traction.

[dTal]

We agree; distros are/were the anointed compilers and distributors of binaries. No distro would ever include an upstream-compiled binary in their official repositories, even if it worked perfectly well and had no dependencies.