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

submitted 3 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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[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Linux software repositories

We literally already have it

The difference is nobody is focusing on multi distro stuff yet. But using the Steam Linux runtime (open source) could be a good start. Standard containers which you can run on any distro.

[–] Shin@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Sorry for the stupid question, but what would be a standard container for any distro?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Appimage (static binary)

[–] Shin@piefed.social 1 points 2 days 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 2 days 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.

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