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The comment section here is a perfect example of why people don't use Linux
+1 there is something nice about just downloading and double clicking an exe.
Maybe they should have a common file format for all distro that extracts, etc. for the current distro. I thought that was flatpak, but idk.
They have the .deb at the top of their download page, no need to install the PPA repository if you don't want. You can't get any more than "just downloading and double clicking an ~~exe~~ deb" than that on Ubuntu.
I will admit though, I wish there were an easier way to install PPAs.