Hello
I am writing this topic asking about the situation of using the Unity Engine on Linux. My computer has Win 10 installed and this Windows system has lost support. I am thinking about Linux because it is lighter. Someone is using the Unity Engine on Linux please write your opinion suggestion.
Unity works great on Linux, especially when using officially supported distributions. I installed Ubuntu about 5-6 years ago, when I was stuck on a support call with Microsoft. To give credit to Microsoft…they did sort out my windows licence. Although I haven’t needed it much since…
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No it doesn’t don’t lie.
Unity is extremely buggy on linux.
windows popping up in wrong places, text input lagging and skipping characters, plastic scm using the ui component name instead of it’s text.
There is a whole host of issues.
Also you need to know how to use the terminal if your going to install linux since there is no installer or binary for linux.
Also note only ubuntu is supported even though it still has all these problems.
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This is just my experience—yours might be different. I remember some UI issues in older Unity Linux builds before it became officially supported around 2019, though I didn’t keep detailed notes.
I’m not using Plastic SCM, and in my 13-year career as a Unity developer, I’ve only encountered one project that used it. I got it working, but my experience with it is limited, and to be honest…I don’t care about it and hopefully I can carry on another decade or so before I see it again…
I’ve been using Linux as my daily workstation since the pandemic when working from home became a common thing, alongside a MacBook Pro / m2 mac mini for building and deploying to iOS.
I have no complaints or feel that it is worse in any way compared to my Macs…
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thx for your answer 
in official is suport 22 but 24 also work
Hi,
In my experience, Unity 6 runs well on Debian 12 with GNOME, running on recent hardware and the NVIDIA graphics driver.
There are some minor issues with panel arrangements when dragging and dropping panels into different areas of the window—I sometimes have to guess where it will be pinned. Otherwise, I haven’t experienced any crashes or component failures. It actually seems to me more stable than on Windows 11.
I know Debian isn’t officially supported, but it is the OS I use everyday and was tired to switch between W11 and Debian.mm So I decided to give it a try a couple month ago. I’m pleasantly surprise how straight forwad was the installation and how smoothly it runs.
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I forgot to mention that I’m using X11 and an AMD graphics card
Some newer distros use Wayland by default these days, which is not as mature/stable.
Although it were problems with other software when using it that made me stay away…perhaps time to try again…