[gruez]

>No, it's not a stretch at all.

For one, it doesn't contain non-free software, and therefore can't be the primary source of software. Maybe you're a Stallman acolyte who only runs free software, but that's not feasible for the average user.

[kragen]

The average user might have one or two non-free programs they depend on that aren't websites. Maybe AutoCAD, or Photoshop, or SketchUp, or Excel, or the driver for their oscilloscope, or Dark Souls. Everything else can easily be free software or webapps. So an "app store" that doesn't contain non-free software can be the primary source of software, and for almost all Debian or Ubuntu users, it always has been.

The average Ubuntu user doesn't even have those one or two non-free programs. After all, Autodesk doesn't provide a version of AutoCAD for Linux in the first place.

[WD-42]

If you are running Linux non free software in the exception, not the rule. I myself can’t think of any that I run.

[kragen]

Try

    sudo apt install vrms

[WD-42]

Virtual Richard M. Stallman. This is hilarious, I'd never heard of this. Thanks for sharing.

No surprises on my system except for the firmware-intel-* packages. I thought those were free software? Must be binary blobs.

[kragen]

Yup. Which is why the real Richard M. Stallman has often used MIPS laptops.