Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by mariuz » Fri, May 31, 2019, 8:16 AM UTC

Unity Editor for Linux
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Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by Mbaqanga » Fri, May 31, 2019, 10:21 AM UTC

Well the question is if Blizzard ports Hearthstone to Linux as a “hey, we have a beta for you guys”, and bring some buzz. The annoying part is the battle.net launcher.

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by dijit » Fri, May 31, 2019, 10:25 AM UTC

Mbaqanga wrote: post #2

Well the question is if Blizzard ports Hearthstone to Linux as a “hey, we have a beta for you guys”, and bring some buzz. The annoying part is the battle.net launcher.

This comment brings to mind a discussion I was having in my current company.

We produce our own game launcher (think: uplay or origin) and I asked if there were plans to produce a Linux version of the launcher. They replied “no because productions (games) [weren’t] asking for it.”

Inversely, when I ask productions if they will support Linux they say that there’s no point because the launcher doesn't support it and the launcher is mandatory.

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by mpartel » Fri, May 31, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

I've been using the "experimental" LTS 2017.4 Linux version at work for over a year and the only platform-specific issue has been broken .NET 4.6 support, which has long since been fixed in 2018.x. Other than that, I've found the Linux builds to be in good shape since the 5.x series (platform-independent Unity buggyness notwithstanding).

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by vectorEQ » Fri, May 31, 2019, 10:54 AM UTC

hope it's better than UE4 support for it, which is basically 'here's a bunch of code, good luck'. it has such crippling bugs its utterly unusable. Good luck unity to do better! I hope they make it awsome.

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by Liquid_Fire » Fri, May 31, 2019, 10:57 AM UTC

Mbaqanga wrote: post #2

Well the question is if Blizzard ports Hearthstone to Linux as a “hey, we have a beta for you guys”, and bring some buzz. The annoying part is the battle.net launcher.

The Battle.net launcher uses Qt, and they already have a macOS version of it, so it shouldn't be too difficult to port.

Edit: That said, it's not like the lack of Unity Editor on Linux was stopping them from having a Linux version of Hearthstone. It has been possible to target Linux for years.

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by blackbrokkoli » Fri, May 31, 2019, 11:06 AM UTC

This is great!

I have high hopes for it, since the experimental version already worked quite well for some time. Still, Unity was one of the reasons I got Win10 on an external hard drive...

It's quite a dead meme, but with things like photopea, Blender, smooth Linux VsCode version, stepping stone distros like Mint and now Unity the year of the Linux desktop might come!

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by paulcarroty » Fri, May 31, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

Linux gaming on the rise now, thankfully mostly to DXVK and D9VK projects.

Seems like one of big corporations funding the authors, probably Valve (old Microsoft kind-of-enemy).

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by de_watcher » Fri, May 31, 2019, 11:50 AM UTC

vectorEQ wrote: post #5

hope it's better than UE4 support for it, which is basically 'here's a bunch of code, good luck'. it has such crippling bugs its utterly unusable. Good luck unity to do better! I hope they make it awsome.

Well, the UE people don't support Linux in their own games...

Re: Unity Editor for Linux

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Post by Sahhaese » Fri, May 31, 2019, 12:10 PM UTC

Mbaqanga wrote: post #2

Well the question is if Blizzard ports Hearthstone to Linux as a “hey, we have a beta for you guys”, and bring some buzz. The annoying part is the battle.net launcher.

Given there's an android version of Hearthstone, what would have stopped them having a generic linux client before?