I'm not sure what you mean, that isn't even most software out of the examples you gave. I think snap and flatpak have almost all of those. For Rust and Python I

I'm not sure what you mean, that isn't even most software out of the examples you gave. I think snap and flatpak have almost all of those. For Rust and Python I think you can use rustup and pyenv. All of that would be preferable to using a root installer. If the only option they have is an installer that runs as root, then the safest way to handle that would be to run it inside a docker container. Those companies should probably not be shipping installers on Linux unless they target very specific distributions and are working closely with them to ensure they don't break the upgrade process, otherwise it's going to cause issues. Edit: here are the snaps and flatpaks and docker images I could find. https://snapcraft.io/firefox https://snapcraft.io/firefox https://snapcraft.io/chromium https://snapcraft.io/chromium https://snapcraft.io/code https://snapcraft.io/code https://snapcraft.io/pycharm-professional https://snapcraft.io/pycharm-professional https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.jetbrains.PyCharm-Professional https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.jetbrains.PyCharm-Profe... https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kicad.KiCad https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kicad.KiCad https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam https://github.com/xanderhendriks/docker-stm32cubeide https://github.com/xanderhendriks/docker-stm32cubeide AFAIK, Solidworks and eM Client are not available on Linux, but if they were you would probably see them available in one of those forms.