You're neglecting all the parts where you've got to sign your install binaries.
Steam
This is a third party marketplace that exists specifically to solve this problem and it carries all the baggage of any other third party marketplace, in the abstract.
Video games
I'm not really shipping in these environments but I doubt it's that easy.
Apple
They will happily stonewall you on many other small issues, however.
You're neglecting all the parts where you've got to sign your install binaries.
This takes less than 15 minutes when you know how to do it. Arguing with a distribution takes weeks. Arguing with dozens of distributions could take months.
You are approaching this solely as a solo indie dev would - which is why, with few exceptions, only solo dev software is on Linux.
They will happily stonewall you on many other small issues, however.
You should see even a fraction of what developers on Linux have been stonewalled over. I will literally take Apple.
Comments
You're neglecting all the parts where you've got to sign your install binaries.
This is a third party marketplace that exists specifically to solve this problem and it carries all the baggage of any other third party marketplace, in the abstract.
I'm not really shipping in these environments but I doubt it's that easy.
They will happily stonewall you on many other small issues, however.
This takes less than 15 minutes when you know how to do it. Arguing with a distribution takes weeks. Arguing with dozens of distributions could take months.
You are approaching this solely as a solo indie dev would - which is why, with few exceptions, only solo dev software is on Linux.
You should see even a fraction of what developers on Linux have been stonewalled over. I will literally take Apple.