The situation on Linux is a little bit different in that each individual distro (say, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) have always worked with a "desktop app store" (packa

The situation on Linux is a little bit different in that each individual distro (say, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) have always worked with a "desktop app store" (package repository, which you interact with e.g. with GUI store frontends or CLI commands) as the one way to get apps from. What's different here is having one that's portable across the distros, enabled by the Flatpak package format.