Aspyr said ages ago, when they did the Civ5 port, that they get paid pretty much based on how much the port is used during the first couple of weeks.

After Civ5, I waited until the Linux port came out then bought it, played in linux for quite a while before ever loading up the game on the windows side.

Wine of course, won't count if you're running steam in there. (That's the whole point of wine, to convince whatever, that it's really windows)

I prefer linux, but DO still use windows as some games just don't work well at all (yeah, bethesda, I'm looking at you) under wine and of course ALL the development tools are windows only, even for games that are ported.
(Civ series). So modding has no choice but to be done in windows. (mind you, for Civ5/6 you can run Firetuner on a windows machine, and connect it to your linux game)

I got the latest survey about a week ago, which is kind of odd. It used to be on the first of the month.
I've had about half a dozen over the years. If it pops up when I'm in windows, I just ignore it, and fire up the other box right away in linux and do the survey then. (I've lucked out twice, and gotten it on both machines at the same time in linux) :D

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Same for 3 monitors.

The config options for either Ubuntu or Mint, choose display, there you can set the primary monitor, and it will stick.

NVsettings, well, run as sudo and sometimes it does work. I prefer the base tool in the distro myself.

You can send the games (some) to another monitor, but sometimes it decides to move back, if you alt-tab out.
Annoying, particularly when streaming. Oh hey, that's my desktop not the game, grumble.

Mint at least also lets you keep the primary for games where you want, then move the toolbar elsewhere.

:)

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