Yeah, that's 90+% of what a Linux distro is, packaging software from a wide variety of projects and trying to make a coherent whole. In Windows/MacOS we have on

Yeah, that's 90+% of what a Linux distro is, packaging software from a wide variety of projects and trying to make a coherent whole. In Windows/MacOS we have one company making the kernel, basic libraries, desktop manager and some applications, and separate independent software developers making and packaging their own applications (although that changed a bit in the last decade or so).