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Comment by PuercoPop

11 years ago

How long until I can develop with Unity game engine from Linux?

You can run Unity editor under Wine [1] and you can publish Unity games for Linux [2] but I assume native Unity editor support on Linux would require the use of a cross platform GUI library (Qt, GTK etc) as it probably relies on WinForms [3] which is only supported by mono (and I think OSX) up to .NET 2.0 [4].

[1]: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Running_Unity_on_Linux_thr...

[2]: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/11/22/linux-publishing-in-unit...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Forms

[4]: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/winforms/