Provide installers for Apache NetBeans releases for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX
Windows
Mac OSX
This debate was had once about 14 years ago - and the decision to go with .pkg installers on Mac OSX was made for this reason: There were a lot of "NetBeans is unusably slow" reports on OSX. The reason? A LOT of users never unpacked the .app - they were running it directly from the mounted, compressed .dmg image. It turns out that's not that unusual. Random access Java classloading does not play nicely AT ALL with the compression used for .dmg images. I strongly recommend not repeating that mistake.