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"They" most of the times is solo devs and you can't blame them for that. GIMP does have flatpak, appimages, etc.
solo devs can spin windows executables and mac installer but not linux..?
I switched to Linux because there were almost no good open source apps on Windows. The comparison is not fair considering how drastically the parameters are changing.
Also a lot of solo devs do try to maintain some community repos.
I'm not trying to disagree but I haven't come across any projects that only wanted the Linux users to build. You can correct me.
i have found a couple before but havent bothered with them, i don't remember which they are but it sure peeved me off to be the only one told to "build it yourself"