I find it weird if a distribution doesn't have it. At the end of the day, a big selling point for FOSS products is always going to be the free-beer aspect. Bi

I find it weird if a distribution doesn't have it. At the end of the day, a big selling point for FOSS products is always going to be the free-beer aspect. Bits are free, take as many as you want. But there's also the appeal of centralized management through the distribution. Even if it's technically an opt-in checkbox during the installer, it's convenient that 95% of your software comes from a central source with a single standard way to get updates. I'd expect this is even more exciting at scale-- if you're managing 5,000 desktops, the FOSS answer is "have a cron job run apt-get update;apt-get upgrade a few times a month" and the Windows answer is "here's an aftermarket tool, and you're probably going to have to script a bunch of individual installers and deal with licensing gimmicks to make them all properly launch."