This runs somewhat counter to my practical experience. On Windows, most programs come with an installer and end up launchable with a shortcut from the start menu. On Linux, on the other hand, unless you're pulling from the package manager, then you've probably got a .tar.gz archive to manually extract somewhere. I see things have been changing only recently with the advent of Snap/Flatpak/AppImage.
I find that most Unix software installs via a `make install` directive, which keeps track of what files are installed where, and are then uninstalled with a `make uninstall`, if one not rely on a package manager that installs does the same internally.
