Matt Miller, Project Leader of #Fedora, gives a nice overview of what makes #distros valuable. This applies to any distro that actually reviews the packages that they ship, including #FDroid #Debian etc. Something like #Flathub or #Obtainium do not behave like distros because they do not aim to review and standardize the packages they ship.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=oKP1hgdFJKo&t=187
(You can click "Watch on YouTube" from that site if you like that kind of thing 😉)
@eighthave Do some basic research or at least watch literally the next video on the same YT channel before pulling Flathub into this again.
@barthalion I'm immersed in the basic research: Debian since 1997, FOSS Android since 2008, F-Droid since 2012, Flathub since years, etc. I also maintain stuff in Homebrew, and in the past contributed to the Fink package manager for macOS and used Cydia on iOS back in 2007
@barthalion I now see there is a whole drama around that interview. I don't know if I'm going to wade into that whole thing, so I'll just say, I like how @mattdm described the role of the distro. That's what I was referring to.