If all the software you want to use is available as a package, it's great. Otherwise it ends up feeling even messier than Windows. The stuff that's not package

If all the software you want to use is available as a package, it's great. Otherwise it ends up feeling even messier than Windows. The stuff that's not packaged usually has to be built from source. That can be annoying because you need to figure out what -dev packages to install. And if any of its dependencies also aren't in the package manager, then you're going to have to build that first. On top of that, many makefiles don't have an inverse operation to the install target, so if you decide you want to remove it it's a manual effort to figure out what to get rid of. Also have to be careful when doing the install because it will happily overwrite already installed files that happen to have the same name.