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With the release of Windows 11, I also thought this would be a good opportunity to change my daily driver to Linux. I'm a Unity developer. I downloaded the lat
by atonalfreerider 5y ago
With the release of Windows 11, I also thought this would be a good opportunity to change my daily driver to Linux. I'm a Unity developer.
I downloaded the latest Ubuntu release and figured out how to mount it with Rufus on a USB and install it to my PC. The 3rd party drivers actually worked out of the box (GPU, 4k monitor) unlike the last time I tried Ubuntu.
From there on, literally NOTHING worked in my development workflow. Download Unity Hub? Won't let me sign in because of an unattended bug with oauth (with no older builds available). Get Rider and MSBuild off of Applications? It won't compile any code. Even GitKraken (a favorite tool of mine) would instantly crash when I browse to a window.
The amount of pain and frustration escalates to a level 10 very fast every time I try Linux. I heard a quote that there are no bad OSes, just bad developers. I can imagine a world where there are enough users for every category of software where things work out of the box. I'm sadly not seeing this, and am incredibly discouraged.
Using Linux is like buying a car, but upon delivery the car body is placed in your driveway, and the engine and transmission are laid out on your front lawn with the expectation that you can build a car yourself.
- pcvonz 5y ago> From there on, literally NOTHING worked in my development workflow. Sounds like all the hardware worked, but a few proprietary programs didn't? Hard to blame Linux for that. Unity is terrible on Linux, which is a shame because it's an engine that all my buddies want to use for game jams.
- ehutch79 5y agoIf you're a unity dev, you kind of need it working. Those arn't some programs 3 enterprises use in some underfunded department.