>Install a specific app version from flatpak, download binaries, or compile it yourself for your current system.
Then you can't have those dependencies managed by a package manager, which means you'll constantly be compiling (and dealing with conflicts yourself). This is not a viable path forward as it seems to be presented here.
>You have so many ways to do this - same as you're doing on windows.
On Windows I copy a binary and run it w/o giving a crap about the OS updates. Vastly different workflows for it to be called "same".