Personally, I'm happy building from source, especially for niche software. Just give me a working CMake or Qt .pro file and I can figure out the rest. I in fact

Personally, I'm happy building from source, especially for niche software. Just give me a working CMake or Qt .pro file and I can figure out the rest. I in fact rather dislike pre-built binaries. I don't trust them to work well and I don't trust them to work for a long time if they happen to rely on libraries that one day change (even the most statically compiled of static binaries still usually rely on libc). And if your software ever gets popular enough, I expect one day my distribution will just package it for me. I'm happy with this arrangement. Source for niche software, apt/rpm for well-established software. For my own Qt project, I decided to use PyQt so I could leverage fbs for distribution for Windows where they're not used to source code (Mac can rely on homebrew, as far as I'm concerned): https://build-system.fman.io/ https://build-system.fman.io/