Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE and a multitude of Linux distributions are doing just fine.<p>In fact, you can package up your own .rpm or .deb and still install the software. But the likelihood of needing to do so is very, very small. And not only that, but it&#x27;s extremely easy to see what those packages are made of - you just unzip and untar them and look at the metadata files and scripts.<p>So yeah, not only do I <i>want</i> to live in that world, I already do.<p>In fact, so do other Windows users - if they use OneGet or chocolatey. And many, many corporate users also live in that world as software is deployed via SSIS or just bog standard Active Directory.