Perforce, one of the very famous Source Control Systems tells us to install its software like this (Hint: making the executables 'executables'. On Windows it's

Perforce, one of the very famous Source Control Systems tells us to install its software like this (Hint: making the executables 'executables'. On Windows it's a direct executable): http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4sag/chapter.install.html http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4sag/c... . I remember because I did it very recently. Thousands of other software do the same. Examples (compare the installation instructions for Windows v/s Linux/UNIX for all these pages below): MOPEX [http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/dataanalysistools/tools/mopex/mopexdownload/ http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/dataanalysist...] Multibit [http://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_installing.html http://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_installing.html ] Octoshape [https://support.octoshape.com/entries/21488922-Octoshape-Application-Client-for-Windows-OS-X-and-Linux https://support.octoshape.com/entries/21488922-Octoshape-App...] UNetbootin [http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/] Tuxboot [http://tuxboot.org/installation/ http://tuxboot.org/installation/] You listed a few major ones which work the desired way, while there's a sea of applications which make Linux still look archaic.