Does anyone have experience developing with Unity 3D game engine on Pop!_OS?

I’m thinking of leaving Windows and Pop seems to be the most painless transition, but I want to get into developing for Unity so that’s a must for me (I can’t use Godot as the SDK I want to use is on Unity only).

Does it work without issues? The Unity site says it works on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 so not sure if that translates over to Pop. Any advice would be appreciated :)

Worst case, is developing on Unity via Wine an option? I don’t know much about Linux so hopefully that’s not a dumb question 😅

  • JilanicoOPEnglish
    3•5 months ago

    Here’s hoping. Thanks for your answer! I really can’t abide what MS is doing with Windows so I’d rather switch. Do you think using Wine would be a feasible workaround in the worst case scenario?

    • bjorneyEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      You will probably have waaaay more issues trying to get the windows client working through wine than dealing with any hiccups on the Linux client. It was buggy but passable like 5-6 years ago so I’m sure it’s much better now

      You can try running it through a VM first before making the switch - 3d performance will be horrendously bad, but at least it will give you some piece of mind.