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What could an opensource gamestore look like? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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There are a few opensource games out there, but many aren't in distro repos, or for windows, or released on itch.io requiring an account to download, etc. What could a open source game store for opensource games for all distros look like?

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[–] Shin@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Static links would be a problem, like replicating the same lib/resources multiple times in a system, Reason why the dynamic links for bin are a thing?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

The reason we do dynamic linking is because it saves RAM. The reason we sometimes don't is because not everyone has the same glibc version.