Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch; many Linux distributions provide excellent curated software repositories that just work for general purpose software. Have done so

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch; many Linux distributions provide excellent curated software repositories that just work for general purpose software. Have done so for well over a decade. All without locking the user out of his own computer. And of course Steam, GoG, and the HumbleStore provide curated repositories for proprietary games on many platforms.