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There needs to a single “App Store” where regular people can find free and paid apps that will work on all distros.
Basically, we need Steam for non-gamers.
what happened to flathub's goal of hosting paid apps?
At a guess, the Venn diagram of people who would happily regularly pay for apps and people who have heard of flathub is teeny tiny.
The nomenclature needs a bit of clarity as well for anybody that hasn't gone digging into the ecosystem.