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In other words, you've seen fucked up systems because people treat their Linux system like literally every non-Linux system they've used.
Which is a Linux problem, not a user problem.
"not being exactly like Windows" isn't a problem at all.
Also, absolutely everyone is familiar with systems that use a central app repository instead of downloading executables with a browser, on their phone.
"Oh look, this software isn't available in the selection that Fedora/Ubuntu/Mint/whatever decided I should have. I guess I can't install it despite the fact that there are compatible packages for my distro."
Yeah right. Walled garden horseshit. Linux apologists do anything they can to move goalposts, to the point where using it is fucking impossible if you actually listen to every asshole's personal opinion.
If you can't adapt to the user's behavior YOU are in the wrong. End of fucking story.
And seriously, you're using an app store to illustrate why limiting user choice is good. What the actual fuck are you doing on a Linux sub anyway?
I think you're mixing up "You shouldn't do this" with "you shouldn't be able to do this". The former is common in Linux, the latter is not. No one is advocating for the latter.
Unless you're Ubuntu, apparently.
Ubuntu doesn't hinder you installing DEB packages, it just hinders you to do so if you're an idiot.