Best suggestion for using Unity3D Editor on Linux?

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Hello,

I’m making a full switch over to Linux (Fedora 18) and to no real surprise, it doesn’t open with Wine.

I’m interested in now getting a Virtual Machine in order to use Unity3D. I heard VMWare was good with 3D acceleration, and was wondering if anyone had any go-to experience with what works and what doesn’t.

I really don’t want to install Windows on this otherwise beast of a machine… I’ll settle for Ubuntu, but NOT Windows.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get Unity3D working in Linux?

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Unity Technologies still do not provide a Unity Editor for Linux, but it can still be run on Linux using Wine. See the community set up wiki page - http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Running_Unity_on_Linux_through_Wine

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I’m on Fedora 19, this works for me with Unity 4.5.2. I use this install guide. Here are some resources that helped me:

Library dependencies:

sudo yum install wxPython playonlinux wine

Follow this if winetricks isn’t installed, and this and this should help if winetricks complains about 64-bit architecture.

winetricks -q "./unity3d.verb"
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VMWare is indeed pretty good with that but running the editor in there is not supported so no promises.