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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldI'm foss plus steam
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    19 hours ago

    How would a person build a properly FOSS games store

    Never in the history of software has people been able to deliver software over the internet in an easy way until Steam came out. It was revolutionary. People cried and shit their pants with the sudden and seismic shift that occurred. Every other form of software delivery pales in comparison to the Steam app.

    If I make a game, I will package it for flatpak if I can. Hopefully there is some way for me to distribute that on Linux. I can’t imagine how it would happen though… woe is me. Don’t look at flathub!

    And don’t look at Itch.io either since none of it is open source at all. Don’t look at the itch.io github. Don’t look at its package delivery system that is so much worse than Steam. Don’t look at it! It is bad! Stop looking at open source software that competes with the value proposition of Steam!

    And then there’s the Steam interface. It is made in React.js and we all know that FOSS cannot use React.js. There are not enough FOSS react devs out there to compete, so unfortunately Valve will just always produce better software than the FOSS world. It is inevitable. FOSS GUIs that equal or surpass closed-source commercial giants? Never happened once, never will happen in the future.


    I’m not at all shitting on you specifically. There’s just a mindset of “we can’t even try” that exists out there on lemmy and reddit and the greater web that I really hate.







  • I learned to copy/paste website source code into notepad when I was a teenager, so vscodium is more than enough for my needs. I have been full time doing front end web dev, shipping in production, since 2014. I do svelte these days for internal tooling for a well known grocer currently. Having Linux experience as well ever since knoppix came out also helped