If building it from source is acceptable, why would using packages direct from the maintainers not be? For anything in an interpreted language, there&#x27;s little difference anyway.<p>I agree that Debian is too accepting of packages. We don&#x27;t recommend that anyone installs Jupyter&#x2F;IPython with apt, and I wouldn&#x27;t mind if Debian removed it from the repos. But if there are all these packages that shouldn&#x27;t be distributed through Debian, we need some other way for users to get them conveniently. We often use language package managers like pip, but they&#x27;re not great for desktop applications - they can&#x27;t easily set up a launcher entry, for instance. That&#x27;s where something like AppImage comes in.