If you are a designer, developer or artist, you might have been in use on an experimental Linux Unity editor . However, not always with an experimental version - a developer needs to complete a stable job experience.
Therefore, they have recently announced that you can use the full functionality of the Unity editor on Linux.
While this is an exciting news, but it's what the official Linux distributions support? Let's talk about more details ......
Non-FOSS warning
Unity editor on Linux (or any other platform) is not open source software. We are here to introduce it because:
Officially supported Ubuntu and CentOS 7
Whether you have a personal license or professional license, or a later version of Unity 2019.1 If you have installed, you can use the editor.
In addition, they give priority to support Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7.
In the announcement , they also referred to the supported configurations:
◈ ◈ x86-64 architecture running the Gnome desktop environment on top of the X11 window system of official ◈ Nvidia proprietary graphics drivers and graphics drivers AMD Mesa ◈ desktop computer, running on the device / hardware emulator or compatibility layer of noYou can try other - but best to stick to official requirements for the best experience.
Description of third-party tools
If you happen to use any third-party tools in a project, you must individually check whether they support.
How to install Linux on the Unity Editor
Now that you already know, then how to install?
To install the Unity, you need to download and install the Unity Hub .
Unity Hub
You need to complete the following steps:
◈ from the official forum page downloads for Linux Unity Hub. ◈ AppImage it will download a file. Simply put, executable and run it. If you do not know, you should look on how to use AppImage on Linux guide. After ◈ start Unity Hub, it will ask you to use Unity ID login (or register) to activate the license. For more information about the license takes effect, see their FAQ page . After use ◈ Unity ID login, enter "Installs" option (shown above), and add a version / required components.That's it. This is the best way to obtain and quickly installed.
to sum up
Even though this is an exciting news, but it does not seem to support a wide range of official configuration. If you use it on Linux, in their Linux forum posts to share your feedback and comments on.
what do you think? In addition, you are using Unity Hub install it, there are better ways to install?
Please tell us what you think in the comments below.
via: https://itsfoss.com/unity-editor-linux/
Author: Ankush Das topics: lujun9972 Translator: geekpi proofread: wxy
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