What this could and should lead to is this: a separation between system packages and user applications, prefferably with two different managers.<p>What we have now are mostly system package managers, you want them to be stable, secure, having the latest features might not be necessary.<p>But we see more and more often that that distribution channel doesn&#x27;t work well with applications: you end up with old, buggy, insecure applications because the distribution just couldn&#x27;t keep up with the upstream update cycle. Why not have a cross-distribution application manager which distributes AppImages? That way, application distribution is an effort concentrated over all the distributions, possibly benefiting the entire community.