Unity Engine officially on Linux

For Personal, Plus and Pro licence users.

After years of amazing unofficial developer support for Linux, the Unity

Editor is now official. According to the http://bit.ly/lxf252unitylinux announcement, “the increasing demand of Unity users in the Film and Automotive, Transportation, and Manufacturing (ATM) industries” has led to official support.

At the moment it’s in preview, but it’s expected to be fully supported by Unity 2019.3. For the time being, official support will focus on PCS running Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 and Centos 7 on x86 and x84 architecture, with the Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver and AMD Mesa graphics driver. While the Unity engine is primarily used by games developers, as the announcement reveals this move has been driven by demand from other

creative industries. You can download the latest builds via the Unity Hub at http://bit.ly/ Lxf252unityhub. The Unity team is also keen to hear feedback from Linux users about their experiences with using Unity. If you’re using it, let them know on the Unity Editor for Linux forum (http://bit.ly/lxf252unityforum).

If you’re looking for a community-developed open source alternative to Unity, now is an excellent time to check out Godot

(https://godotengine.org). Not only is it opensource and free to use, but it offers a wider array of languages, including Gdscript, C# 7.0, C++, Python and more. At GDC 2019, the Godot team held a presentation on the state of Godot in 2019, along with hints at future features. You can watch a video of the presentation at:

http://bit.ly/lxf252godot.