I have been wondering this for ages. Just last week I had to manually set up KeePass, VSCode, IntelliJ, Guitar (git ui) by manually unpacking tarballs (luckily

I have been wondering this for ages. Just last week I had to manually set up KeePass, VSCode, IntelliJ, Guitar (git ui) by manually unpacking tarballs (luckily already built) into ~/bin. Guitar luckily had an AppImage which worked beautifully as a single executable. For that reason alone I'm a huge fan of AppImage above snaps and flatpaks.