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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    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.

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

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        Literally the Steam runtime is a Linux container environment with standard dependencies available for packaged applications and games

        Anything supporting the container format it uses can run it

        Containers is a method of presenting a system environment which looks the same across any computer you run it on, even if the underlying systems are wildly different, it’s like a sandbox but designed for efficiency (less resource overhead)