tux racing is the only one i can remember as a linux exclusive off the top of my head.. lol
Just trying to gage the potential market for making exclusive titles on a OS that theoretically wouldn't have as much competition; like AAA games and such.
I was looking at it from the point of view:
Being a "little fish" in a big pond
vs
Being a "big fish" in a little pond
Did you use Appimage format when you package your game?
I heard it's suppose to work on all Linux distros; I only tested on Mint and Ubuntu.
AppImage is useful for packaging, but it doesn't prevent broken builds by itself. I've seen plenty of Linux games without AppImage that work fine, and I think I've seen at least some AppImage games that don't work (although AppImage is pretty rare). I do use AppImage for my own games, but more importantly, I use static linking where I can and I redistribute .so files and use custom rpaths where I am forced to use dynamic linking.
How do they classify their steam deck? Because that is arch linux, but many games are played with help of an abstraction layer. If the deck is in the 1.47%, that means there are even less linux users (that use linux consciensously)
The OS is linux, so it should show up as a linux computer.
The steam client allows you to run games that only work on windows using proton, but steam runs natively on linux and if the game has an executable that works natively on linux it will install that version.
It's not that steam runs on this abstraction layer, but that steam can use proton to run specific games (Those that only work on windows)
There is not much difference with using any computer with linux and having steam installed on it.
No it might not. As I just checked, that is not an actual real usage statistic, it is a survey with answers given by participiants. Should you exclusivly use that steam deck, you might not even be aware that it is Linux ;-)
If you have a Windows Gaming Machine and buy yourself a Steam Deck, what would you answer...
That is not right. You don't answer anything, the only question is if you want to participate, if you answer yes, the steam client automatically captures all that information.
If you have a PC with windows and a steamdeck and you participate in the survey on both, the system will add a computer with windows and a computer with linux.
More than once, steam has asked me if I want to participate, and you shouldn't answer anything manually, precisely, because then the data would depend on your knowledge of your hardware.
EDIT: Maybe you are confusing some other type of survey, please, search on how the official steam hardware survey works and you will see that what you say is not correct.
Let's assume that on the plate you see "Blue screen". It was the last drop of impatience I loosed. After that I permanently moved to GNU/Linux
Depends on what tools you are going to use. If you want to use something really portable for example godot, it can make sense to export it for windows also. If you want to use for example sdl/c++ it would be pain to compile it for windows without windows.
Do you want something that really exclusive for linux? Something that can be compiled only for linux? It shouldn't compile for windows even if you have source code? It is a bed idea.... Anyway you can create your game as part of linux kernel. You can use POSIX API.... It will make you game bounded to linux and make it is more hard to compile/run it on windows but I don't recommend you to do it if the goal is just to create this bound just because you want this bound...
In general I always recommend godot.
Under Linux distributions that fully support current MinGW-w64 tool chains and respective libraries, cross compiling SDL2 app C++ code from Linux for Windows is painless once the CMake file is set up and any platform specific code is #ifdef'd. I'm on a Arch based Linux distribution, so maybe that has made things easier.
Proton and Wine is only the icing on the cake. The real problem is, that many popular games that are small time indie have exports for Windows, Android, Mac and Linux. The reason being, as I suspect, is the use of engines.
And just like games get often asked about android or mac releases, if you post a popular linux game, you would get pestered for a windows release. If the libraries used are available as open source (and we are talking about Linux here ;-) chances are, that a windows build is trivial in theory.
