Well, if it was on Linux, it could have been that people were excited for the release, but it wasn't available on their distro's repo yet. I've definitely been

Well, if it was on Linux, it could have been that people were excited for the release, but it wasn't available on their distro's repo yet. I've definitely been really excited for a feature and then discovering it doesn't work once it's available in my repo 6 months later. As much as I like the repo system (and C), I was pretty impressed by an experience I had a little while ago. I found a bug in Atom after a new release. I was able to track down the cause in about an hour, and the person who made the commit that caused the bug fixed it an hour later. The bug fix release was available within 24 hours or so. I don't know JS or Coffeescript, but it was verbose enough that I was able to track down the bug and get it fixed without having to wait for the bug to be accepted upstream, or download and compile the package. Compiling a package isn't hard, but I only do it for the software I really want the most recent version of.