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Usually their developers will have ppas.

And what if i do not use a debian based distro for which the ppa works?

Maintaining one package that works on all distros is a lot easier.

ppas doesn't work if you don't use ubuntu/debian. And not everybody was willing to go through the trouble of making a ppa, an AUR package, a custom .rpm, etc, etc.

you listed Electron apps, a java game that runs without external deps, and something nobody would want to install anyway.

Absolutely none of those justify fat apps as they are already fat apps in themselves! I don't even...

You can install Spotify and Zoom with apt.

Zoom throws a `zoom_latest.deb` on their website with no repo, you just need to remember to go there and download it for updates, by hand. Given zoom's security record, no thanks.

Yeah, that's pretty shitty.

And Discord and Steam.