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90% are games. Is this good or bad?

• willyum 15y ago
  I think it's good, or at worst interesting. There have been a couple articles talking about how Ubuntu+Unity will push Linux into the "common user" limelight. I'd gander that most hackers wouldn't bother will games like these
• baq 15y ago
  useless observation: compare with other app stores. useless because i don't have the numbers.
• iso8859-1 15y ago
  I think it's good. The games are high quality too (World of Goo, Braid). The reason it's mostly games on there, is because games are one of the things the open-source community does not seem to be very good at producing. I think it's because most OSS hackers aren't good artists, so the games will never look as appealing as those designed commercially.
• lunarscape 15y ago
  The list is practically meaningless. It only shows results for those who chose to install a tracking package and who used the Software centre. There's no data on software installed through other means. Lots of proprietary and commercial software vendors supply their own installers so wouldn't show up in these results ever.