I’m a Godot user for years, and it’s currently not really a viable option in the job market in my country.
Just now, I decided to give Unity a try. Annnnnnd the installation sucks on Linux.
It only distribute through Flathub, and it asks VS Studio through Flathub, then it insists I need to install mono and dotnet through flathub despite I’ve already installed every possible version of those through Flathub.
Long story short, got a standalone JetBrain Rider.sh and asked Unity to open with the path, which works for now, but it’s always a good idea to have an open source fallback option.
VSCodium is an obvious choice, but I just cannot get it to work. The Rider way (get tar.xz and use direct path for executable) crashes instantly, flathub gets ignore by Unity, installing the rpm version…I don’t know why, there’re several files named codium in usr/, but Unity editor doesn’t see any of those, maybe a permission problem?
It’d be nice if I can just use Kate or Kdevelop or something, but it seems like it doesn’t work out of the box. Now I think about it, I don’t even know what an IDE does aside from text editing.
Anyway, it’s 6 in the morning, I should stop thinking about this, I’m posting this and sleeping. Please share anything on the “Unity on Linux” topic.
Thanks for reading.
Edit: Forgot to mention, “Open by file extension” just stopped working out of nowhere. It just opens VS, regardless what I’d get when opening with dolphin.