Oscilloscope!
Hey, Quake can do it!
http://tdtechnosys.com/boldial/quake-running-on-an-oscilloscope/
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Hah! I made a reference to this in the Linux thread not even seeing you’d mentioned it here. So yeah, Unity! How about it? Oscilloscope owners will be lining up. 
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Sure hope the Oscilloscope user base isn’t as… um… “passionate” as all those professional Linux users. 
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I get being passionate, but I wonder how many professional developers would use a Linux editor vs Windows or Mac, since no one here (other than @gnat_1 as far as I can see) has really stated that they would indeed buy a license if it were available. I mean, yeah, professional movie effects studios use Linux, but we’re game developers, not effects artists.
Waaaaaay back in the day I used an SGI with Unix for development (Alias, etc.), but once PCs were cheap enough and capable enough, the studios I worked for made the switch. It’s been a while since I’ve worked at a big studio but I’m pretty sure the standard game dev station is still Windows or Mac based. If I could do everything I do as an indie developer on a Linux box instead of Windows, I might switch over, but there are a lot more tools I make use of every day than simply the Unity Editor. Switching to Linux to me, a paid professional version user (since 2009 when you had to pay for the Indie version) wouldn’t make much sense considering my work flow.
I do wonder how many professional indie game developers (not those at big companies, but those wearing more than one hat) are using Linux to develop on.
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Few to none for a very basic reason. You need Windows to produce Windows and Windows Phone binaries. You need OS X to produce OS X and iOS binaries. You need Linux to produce… oh wait, you don’t need Linux to produce Linux binaries.
Those who are very enthusiastic about Linux are still going to have to buy Windows and OS X computers unless they are willing to limit themselves to a very small audience. If you are going to have to own those platforms, you may as well develop on them from the beginning.
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/truth
I’ve used/played with various distros of linux, dual booted back when that was the only way.
Have more than one box, have VMware, Virtual Box, have the choice and I use Windows XP and 8.1.
Too many free and easy to install tools.
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lol
I remember spending months on Linux as the sole OS on my computer. I’ve used Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu.
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