Flathub's app catalog has passed the 1 million user milestone

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Flathub is positioned as a vendor-independent platform for distributing packages in Flatpak format. There are more than 2400 applications in the catalog, of which more than 850 have received the status of verified, i.e., maintained by the original authors. The total number of package downloads is estimated at 1.6 billion.

In counting (https://docs.flathub.org/blog/over-one-million-active-users-and-growing/) active users, instead of collecting metrics from user systems, an analysis of statistics available only on the infrastructure side of Flathub was used. To predict the number of active users, a tie to the number of installations of runtime-sets that provide a generic environment for isolated application launching was used. In particular, the number of runtime downloads with FreeDesktop components and its updates to the latest version were estimated to determine the number of active installations.