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dont forget how they expect you to compile it. some projects offer a nice .msi for windows, a .whatever for mac, and then linux users just get a link to their github. i mean cmon.
"They" most of the times is solo devs and you can't blame them for that. GIMP does have flatpak, appimages, etc.