Unlike locked down systems (like xbox or iphone) Linux, OSX and Windows let users download and run whatever they want. It's true that Linux distros usually also has some kind of packaging system for distributing updates, managing dependencies and let users easily browse available software. How can NOT having that be considered a feature? It's not like Apple or Microsoft are willing to push updates for third party games through their official operating system updates any faster, or even at all. Instead games can, after being manually downloaded and installed, update themselves in exactly the same way on any Linux distribution, OSX or Windows. For example Minecraft does this and it works just fine.
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Unlike locked down systems (like xbox or iphone) Linux, OSX and Windows let users download and run whatever they want. It's true that Linux distros usually also has some kind of packaging system for distributing updates, managing dependencies and let users easily browse available software. How can NOT having that be considered a feature? It's not like Apple or Microsoft are willing to push updates for third party games through their official operating system updates any faster, or even at all. Instead games can, after being manually downloaded and installed, update themselves in exactly the same way on any Linux distribution, OSX or Windows. For example Minecraft does this and it works just fine.