We’re back with some new milestones thanks to the continued growth of Flathub as an app store and the incredible work of both our largely volunteer team and our growing app developer community:
- 70% of the most popular apps are verified
- 100+ curated quality apps
- 4 million active users
- Over 2 billion downloads
Regardless of how you interpret the statistics, I think that this is a sign that the long vexed problem of software distribution for Linux has been significantly improved. Not quite solved, but for most desktop apps this is fantastic news.
Thank you for acknowledging the positive development. It’s so nice to see some appreciation for the effort put into solving our issues. I’m so tired of all the complaints and outrage about this or that solution, be it flatpak, appimage, snap or whatever.
Flatpaks aren’t perfect, but they are really solid in almost all cases.
For the general user that just wants a simple way to download apps on Linux, it just works.
For power users, they will know already the upsides and downsides.
One of the best things about ditching Ubuntu for Debian was losing worthless snaps and gaining UI support for flatpaks.
Flatpak is the default in ubuntu though? Atleast it is for me in 24.04
How do they count active users? I have four machines that use flatpaks. Is that four users or one?
How do they count active users?
By seeing by how many flatpak clients apps are being updated.
have four machines that use flatpaks. Is that four users or one?
Four.
4 million active users 😏
