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I thought it already had Linux support? For example, Wasteland 2 was built with Unity and works on Linux.

Or are there multiple game engines called Unity (on top of the existing confusion between the game engine and the Ubuntu thing)?

EDIT: I think the announcement is about Linux support in the SDK, not the actual software developed with Unity?

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The end-products - games - do have linux support. But the support is not that great, for example the unity engine on linux doesn't seem to support vsync (it says it does, but it doesn't in practise) which results in horrific and annoying tearing. It has been like this for well over a year, with no sign of any urgency to fix it.

It is nice that "linux support" is a bullet point that companies feel is worth having, but it isn't a significant enough part of their market for them to make it work without glaring issues, often.

Not sure why you were downvoted as I've read similar reports that the Linux builds from Unity are not the best.

Hopefully though now that their main product is expected to work 100% correctly on Linux, that this will lead to fixes in their Linux compiler.

> for example the unity engine on linux doesn't seem to support vsync (it says it does, but it doesn't in practise)

It does technically support it. It's just that for some mysterious reason, it's turned off by default. Games that explicitly turn it on, or let you change it in the settings (in my small library that's only MouseCraft and JazzPunk) run fine.

Everything else maxes out my CPU. As a laptop user, this does not make me happy.

It is about the Unity editor. Unity3d can compile a game for a linux target, but until now, you couldn't design/edit/build your game on a linux machine.

This is great news and I hop they will support it.

It's really great news, particularly because their editor ran incredibly slowly in Wine with severe graphical issues (half the text won't render).

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