Snaps, flatpak, and similar containerized package distribution are all trying to build an app store to monetize software distribution. And an attempt to get a

Snaps, flatpak, and similar containerized package distribution are all trying to build an app store to monetize software distribution. And an attempt to get a software distribution method gain popularity across linux distribution lines. While I will never use these methods, and I think they are completely flawed ideas, I think the goal of them is a natural evolution of fragmented similar systems. The BSDs have the same problem as linux distributions. The open source BSDs share a lot of code but aren't quite the same. If several of them got very popular, someone would attempt to make a method to distribute software across all of them. Though in BSD this is harder because in linux land at least the kernel is standardized.