Over One Million Active Users, and Growing | Flathub Documentation
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Earlier this month we shared new app metadata guidelines in response to the growth and maturity of Flathub. Today we're proud to share about that growth in a bit more detail including a huge milestone, how we calculate stats, and what we believe is driving that growth.
  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    It was me. Reinstalled three times a couple days ago because I'm an idiot.

    But I'm an idiot who uses FOSS and I rather be dumb in a world of genius than a genius in a world of dumb.

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    The issue with those numbers is that they don't account for people having multiple devices. My PC, Laptop, and Steam Deck all download apps from flathub, so I'm likely counted multiple times. On the other hand most people only use one device, so the actual numbers probably don't doffer much. It's an estimate anyway.

    Edit: I'm not surprised the amount of people using flatpak/flathub increased so much. It's my preferred method of installing proprietary software and works on any distro, even unconventional ones like NixOS or Alpine. Sandboxing continues to get better, be it isolation or usability.

  • downhomechunk@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    I am not one of the million, but I'm glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.