> The software vendor also has the option of providing a Windows style GUI
> installer.
Oh yes. Make our lives a hell. Kick us in the balls and fuck us with a chainsaw.
THAT is exactly what nobody, EVER, should do. Making their own GUI installers, that is.
There is a _huge_ advantage Linux has (well, at least Debian and derivatives), and that is a working package-management. And anything that breaks this is not an improvement, but a regression.