So, a tarball full of statically linked binaries. You can do that on Linux, too.
And, there are some new package managers that isolate in this way (and go well beyond it by containerizing). Flatpak is probably the most promising, IMHO. And, it still provides all the benefits of a good package manager, like verification, authenticity, downloading automatically from a repo, dependency resolution for core libraries. And, the way Flatpak handles the latter feature is really quite cool (and avoids having to distribute dozens of copies of the same libs).
Your description of installing packages on Linux does not match my experience in the past decade. Dependency resolution is a solved problem on Linux, at least on the major distros with good package managers.
And, there are some new package managers that isolate in this way (and go well beyond it by containerizing). Flatpak is probably the most promising, IMHO. And, it still provides all the benefits of a good package manager, like verification, authenticity, downloading automatically from a repo, dependency resolution for core libraries. And, the way Flatpak handles the latter feature is really quite cool (and avoids having to distribute dozens of copies of the same libs).
Your description of installing packages on Linux does not match my experience in the past decade. Dependency resolution is a solved problem on Linux, at least on the major distros with good package managers.