> back when I was using arch I wrote pkgbuilds instead of configure/make/installing to my home folder. kept my ./local/(bin|lib|share) clean and meant I could update it easier or uninstall it with pacman.
This is exactly what a tech savvy user would do.
yeah, and the number of people who use a non-android linux and aren't "tech savvy" rounds to zero. It is very weird to ask "what's in it for the regular user" with the assumption that "the regular user of e.g. SUSE" is the same as "the regular user of a computer"
An immutable rootfs distro should be a bit more resilient than the average Linux install. Not having to add any random repos to your base system is a great feature. When I run random build scripts I mostly use containers or VMs, that also works for the odd unmaintained but useful software that requires vintage Ubuntu LTS libraries.
back when I was using arch I wrote pkgbuilds instead of configure/make/installing to my home folder. kept my ./local/(bin|lib|share) clean and meant I could update it easier or uninstall it with pacman.
As to runnning random build scripts, well I already do that anyway. Any software that isn't provided by my package manager requires me to run random build scripts from random people. I sure as hell am not reading through every line of code in say... trealla prolog before make-ing it.