Linux

5218 readers

7 users here now

A community for everything relating to the linux operating system

Also check out [email protected]

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

182

Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers (www.jetbrains.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

39 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Source: JetBrains' "The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023" survey

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah how come? I've had to build simple stuff in unity for university, I've not run into issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've tried switching to Fedora several times, but I never managed to get it to working conditions. Unity Hub was regularly crashing, I got a bazillion of errors related to unsupported type of media files we're using for ingame videos, and only during the time I was trying to troubleshoot the issue, Unity has crashed several times.

I suppose that if I was starting a new project, I would just go with Godot and on Linux, but a project that has been build for the last few years on Windows, and is planned to only be build for Windows for now, it adds unneccessary risk to the whole development. Just the fact that I would have to dualboot just to test whether builds work as expected is additional bother, and I suppose you will eventually run into issues with something not working the same on Windows as it did on Linux.

Also, isn't there the whole issue of DirectX not being supported on Linux?

And since gamedev is usually a lot more resource-intensive compared to other development, you can't really containerize it.