[geekbird]

IMO it's just new for the sake of newness. Apt and dpkg work fine, but some folks feel they have to reinvent the wheel, I guess to beef up their resume or be more like MS or Apple. If they want to write MS or Apple style software, they need to just go and work for those companies.

Apparently some people think that Linux should be just as deterministic and user limiting as proprietary software. I don't understand it, personally.