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Well, Linus at least agrees with you. I just watch a talk he gave the other day in which he described one of the biggest problems with Linux desktop being that the distros can't even decide on a default package manager/way to package applications and all of the difficulties that creates.
It's funny because even for simple stuff like when I used to update my Plex install manually I'd go to the Plex website, and the list is:
Windows
Mac
Linux: Debian x 32 Bit Debian x.1 32 Bit
Debian x 64 bit
Debian x.1 64 Bit
Fedora ...
Ubuntu ...
Cent ...
and god help you if you're not on one of those versions or you don't use one of those distros.