Yes, from my understanding, you are completely right. The "everything can change" philosophy causes issues for builders. As all package managers are not the same design but trying to solve the same distribution problem. This philosophy brings a ton of good things too tho. I get to choose the kernel, packages and filesystem I use in my OS. That's important to me. I hate windows overall, but there is one thing windows does right is the option to simply download and "install" an exe. I agree that there should be a standardized way. The one file method is to make appimage, but I'm not certain if that is helpful for a debugger software, since it'll probably need higher privileges and running from /bin as command. Privileges is also a big deal in Linux due to it being server first in design.
@aylacroft No issues with working alone, but anything I've made so far doesn't really feel good enough to take feedback on yet IMO. This is the only difficult thing of working alone, is to your own critic
@aylacroft@karpathy Hahahaha, I'm sure he's working for free because he is in it for the love of the game. Sam twink altman knows it. However, I've come to realize long ago that their definition "love" and "game" is quite different for all these "men".