I think flatpak/appimage/snap are good for similar reasons... If you're developing commercially supported applications and want to support Linux as well as Windows and Mac, it's a pretty natural target. Less (although not none) issues with the host OS depending on what your application does.
Yeah, it means a lot of duplicate libraries, but it also means things will work... and aside from games, not aware of many that install more than a couple one-off applications to work with.
Yeah, it means a lot of duplicate libraries, but it also means things will work... and aside from games, not aware of many that install more than a couple one-off applications to work with.