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Why there are few native Linux games compared to Windows or even Mac? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 days ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Does the existence of Wine compatibility layer discourages the creation of native Linux games?

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[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 20 hours ago

It's the Windows way. There applications typically also ship all dependencies. Either statically linked, or as a DLL files in their install folder.

It's not a good solution, but for games that's imho OK.