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At least for vegans there's chicken salt. What am I supposed to use instead of Steam? GOG? Or... Hold on, suppressing laughter so I can type... Epic?
How would a person build a properly FOSS games store? I feel pretty good about using Steam, still, given how much Valve has contributed to gaming on Linux, but maybe I haven't thought it through fully?
There are FOSS games, in all the major genres. They are generally acquired the same way you acquire other applications in your OS. For me it's
aptitudeon the command-line, but that's far from the most common experience. (I really like "Singularity" which is a strategy game where you play as a newly sentient AI; Wesnoth is also good.)There are a near endless supply of gratis independent games on itch.io and probably other sites. I do think there's some FOSS trackers that will help you manage game installations that are not done through the OS application management, but I can't name one.
I just use steam, but I'm not a purist in what I consume -- I also use Discord and have a YT Premium subscription. I AM a purist in what I force other people to consume: what I publish is always under AGPLv3 or CC-SA or some other "strong copyleft".
Never in the history of software has people been able to deliver software over the internet 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.
All that, just to pretend I said "nobody should try because Steam is peak".