It's a problem of the many-distros model for Linux—or, if you prefer, it's a problem of Linux just being a kernel. You can't just target "Desktop Linux 15" and expect to have all the stuff that Desktop Linux 15 has, including a robust set of basic libraries and a unified GUI stack and standard same-on-every-copy-of-Linux-15 multimedia libraries and services and all that good stuff, and let the OS worry about keeping that secure without breaking your program. Programs end up having to be a lot more fiddly about their dependencies, and it causes problems.

Now, maybe the Linux approach is so good and useful in other ways that it's worth putting up with that, but it is a big problem and people are going to solve it, one way or another. If the model can't be changed, then the only solutions available may be bad, but they'll be used, and widely.