What you're looking for sounds like AppImages (https://appimage.org/ https://appimage.org/) . I have only used them while downloading games from itch.io, etc. (

What you're looking for sounds like AppImages (https://appimage.org/ https://appimage.org/) . I have only used them while downloading games from itch.io, etc. (since i prefer package managers) but they seem to work out of the box on popular distros.