It happens oftentimes that you want a newer version and your distro doesn't have it yet. Also, you have to think from the distributor as well, if you want to m

It happens oftentimes that you want a newer version and your distro doesn't have it yet. Also, you have to think from the distributor as well, if you want to make an app for linux, how do you go about having it packaged and distributed for all distros? You need to manage so many different package manager, its a lot of overhead.