That said, fuck unity for trying to pull some bullshit with their licensing before the deserved shitstorm. Godot all the way. I hope they expand on the 3D capabilities.

Now if only Unreal would do the same

UE hat excellent Linux support. They need it for VFX production because that world runs on RHEL. Epic and their licensors just don't care for Linux games.

Both UE and Unity have supported both native Linux builds and developing on Linux for as long as I can remember. Has something changed recently? It's been a couple years since I've done this.

I'm literally using unreal on Linux daily my dude. And you can see export on Linux package from the windows editor too.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/linux

Btw Tencent has a 40%(and other companies) in Epic Games so its not just Tim Sweeney.

we'll have to wait for Tim Sweeny to get his head out of his ass first.

You'll be waiting a while.

I hope both engines rot.

Unreal Engine 5 has a Linux native version though, unless you're talking about things like feature parity with Windows

I've been corrected in a reply

Given that Unity and Unreal have the same owners, their asset stores have been consolidated, and Unity discontinued its HDRP branch/render pipeline...

Yeah, Unity is now Unreal Engine, Little Bro Edition.

I wish that was the case. Half the game dev scene in my area I use still use it and give all sorts of excuses about why.

Godot isn't there yet.

Didn't they cancel it?

yeah I was about to say F Unity coming straight from the underground!!

Unity doesn't have nearly the share that Unreal Engine does. It's a big engine, but not that big.

UI scaling still has some rough edges on Linux in general. For example when running X11 applications under Wayland. Or when using multiple screens with different scaling.

If recommend reading the quote from unity explaining it:

One thing I can talk about now is that we're bringing official Steam support into Unity. Now, I know you'll say "But I already ship games to Steam" and that's true. Thousands of developers have had success on Steam with Unity. The thing is, prior to Platform Toolkit, we've never actually officially supported Steam in the past. It's always been up to developers to integrate Steamworks themselves, and publish and support their titles on that platform historically.

And on Steam Deck, many of you have been finding success with Proton. But I think we can do better with a native solution. So, as I mentioned before our strength is highly performant native runtimes. So moving forward we'll provide not just build targets for Steam but also Steam Deck and the upcoming Steam Machine. We'll also look to make targeted enhancements to our Linux runtime to provide native performance increases and remove the need for developers to rely on Windows through Proton.

And look, as great as Proton is, it's simply something we don't have any degree of control over or ability to support. And we've actually made some native improvements to the Linux player that targets the Steam Deck hardware. Offering a potential improvement in performance over a build running on Proton and that's actually available today.

Unreal already does this.

Godot shouldn't.