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I think you're conflating two different issues. Poor UX for installing 3rd party software has been solved with things like Steam or the Mac App Store, for example.

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Steam and the App Store are nothing more than proprietary package management systems.

Again, that's not the issue. Package managers are great. The problem is how the base system is maintained/updated/versioned.

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