> Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian Most of these are proprietary. I view these third-party stores mostly as a way to ship proprietary software.

> Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian Most of these are proprietary. I view these third-party stores mostly as a way to ship proprietary software. Not sure what else they add, and the downsides of having yet another package manager on top of your system's are obvious. I'm surprised KDE is behind this. Some sort of packaging standard that works across distributions would be beneficial, but it'd have to be integrated with the system's package manager, not tacked on.