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Oh, and a gripe about the Linux/Gnome experience: Why is it so hard to run an executable? It would be nigh impossible for any non-technical user to download and run the games submitted here.

Mine is misinterpreted as a shared object, so clicking it from the file explorer (Nautilus? Something else?) in PureOS opens a dialog “No application is installed to open shared objects”. However, I also tried another submission which is somehow understood by the file explorer to be an executable. Humorously, the dialog then says “No application is installed to open executables”. That’s right, no app is installed because the operating system itself does that!

Then there’s also the “open properties, permissions, mark as executable”, which also is difficult for non-techies. On Librem 5 the file browser is still pretty hard to use (e.g. I can hold to open the context menu, but can’t seem to tap on Properties once it is open), so I didn’t even attempt to go through this process.

I don’t expect us to solve any of this here, I just wanted to vent.