Flathub Grows Past One Million Active Users
Flathub Grows Past One Million Active Users
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.
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.
I like how know one wants snap but everyone chose flatpak.
I like flatpaks
I am really glad Flatpak exists, it made using Linux much easier for me ^^
I know there's abit of a war going on about the technical merits of flatpaks which I don't know enough about the Unix world to fully understand.
As a newer user flatpaks have been pretty great, I like having the Android like permissions system through flatseal especially for my proprietary apps like Discord.
I dunno if I'd go all in on using only flatpaks but for what it is, consider me a fan.
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.
As a noob, can someone briefly explain flatpaks and why they may be preferred?
Glad you asked
- containerized apps
- more secure than regular install
- less clutter
- no dependency hell
- open source (in opposition to snap)
It is also much easier to install and update, since it don't require restarting the computer, and also works on all distro.
I love flatpaks
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.
Lets gooooo 🔥
Glad to see growth on flathub 💪
I like flatpaks but bundling everything as flatpak is a overkill.
By choice or by force? I'll take flatpaks over Appimages and literally rocks over snaps, but what is this metric actually saying?
It is saying that more than one million people are actively using Flathub. What do you mean by force?
I don't think there's any business entity artificially forcing the users to use it (like Firefox on Ubuntu 😉) if that's you're asking.
Otherwise, the only case where the user is "forced" to use flatpak would be when the software they're looking for is not available under their distro's repo, which happens a lot especially in point release distros.
Why does it only have git sign in? What If I don't want to use those shitty git services?
You mean GitHub signin?
Because Flathub operates on GitHub. If you hate it that much, you could use a different Flatpak distributor (I heard Fedora has its own?)
