Most of us have heard of the Unity game engine, and until a couple of weeks ago we were restricted to using OSX or Microsoft Windows for development: on 26 August, an experimental build was released for Linux.
It is still a work in progress and there are a number of issues, including (the extremely inconvenient) not being able to drag between windows within Unity. I've also had crashes every time I try to add a component through the button, but it works through the drop-down menu.
One less reason to use Microsoft Windows - my partition has been deleted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @07:35AM
Because other pieces of software don't lock me in their software ecosystem. I can stop using Unity and I'll only lose the ability to use Unity. If I stop using Windows, I lose access to every single piece of Windows-only software.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @03:36PM
No... wine works for some Windows software, but why bother? I've found everything I need in the repos. I thought I couldn't do without MS Money, but kmymoney fills the bill. Gaming is catching up. Gimp is suitable for Photoshop, although there is a Photoshop version that runs under wine. etc,etc.