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FOSS store required immediately how much does mircrosoft have to do with steam beyond having an app? how could valve be made amenable to serviceing linux platf
by rolph 4y ago
FOSS store required immediately
how much does mircrosoft have to do with steam beyond having an app?
how could valve be made amenable to serviceing linux platforms in general, in addition to curating ported games?
i know these guys were MS at one time but the past tense may be a benevolent condition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation
What other candidates for FOSS "store" exist beyond repositories? I dont think github is in that pool anymore.
if valve provided a linux onboarding platform, in addition to games and repos, that just may have beneficial consequences for FOSS and valve
- ViViDboarder 4y agoThere is a huge FOSS store. In fact, it’s been the default for obtaining software for over two decades now. It’s called “just download it from the website”.
- rolph 4y agothat model works to onboard a sector of the pie, the experience of hunting and pecking through a store is a familiar experience, mimicking the array of icons UI so common to phones, and app stores. having a "store" brings all the various ...downloaditfroms... to a centralized place of one stop shopping. thats the level of convienience expected by general consumers, and thats required to make the wedge of the pie widen and become a little more stable. The bigger issue is that FOSS is seen as difficult, dangerous, what hackers do, etc due to marketing forces, and the effort to keep people safe from the internet