You are right. Linux distros were pioneers and it used to be great, but it's gone off the rails now. Running kde-neon I have pkcon, apt/aptitude (for when I forget pkcon or one of its commands), flatpaks, AppImages, and the usual rigamarole of uninstalling snap and then setting up app-level installers for the things that previously only had snap candidates (lookin' at you Firefox). On the RH side I have both yum and dnf? Mokay.
Back when I was installing KDE on top of another distro, I'd also have the Discover front-end sitting next to Gnome's Software Center (or whatever it was). That should be somewhat expected and is more an indication of the bloat that major window managers have embraced.
The front-ends are decent about showing what source a piece of software came from, which is nice, but the last time I used them they didn't stop one from installing the same piece of software from two different sources.
All to say, back in the day it was so convenient to have yum or aptitude just take care of things installing software, resolving conflicts, etc. Now we're in a bit of a mire.
Back when I was installing KDE on top of another distro, I'd also have the Discover front-end sitting next to Gnome's Software Center (or whatever it was). That should be somewhat expected and is more an indication of the bloat that major window managers have embraced.
The front-ends are decent about showing what source a piece of software came from, which is nice, but the last time I used them they didn't stop one from installing the same piece of software from two different sources.
All to say, back in the day it was so convenient to have yum or aptitude just take care of things installing software, resolving conflicts, etc. Now we're in a bit of a mire.