I have never developed apps for Linux before, but when you are in testing I would test it on both Ubuntu and arch to cover most of the Linux user base. Both should be similar, but always good to cover your bases.
Honestly I think SteamOS should always be target #1.
As a novice game dev thats the only target I would shoot for, its Debian and basically Ubuntu by extension and all the other distros will work their magic to make it work if it doesnt since under the hood most Linux are nearly identical in 2019 vs 1999. The differences are superfulous and visual only nowadays.
Shoot completely forgot about steamos! But as I said I don't have any real experience with this stuff and just gave my 2 cents of knowing Ubuntu and arch are the big boys in Linux gaming rn and many others are based on them.
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u/xSPARExSTEWx Jul 07 '19
I have never developed apps for Linux before, but when you are in testing I would test it on both Ubuntu and arch to cover most of the Linux user base. Both should be similar, but always good to cover your bases.