Is Linux (client) support for Lumberyard canceled

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In Lumberyards FAQ a few weeks ago you could read the following

*Q. What device platforms does Lumberyard support?*Lumberyard currently supports PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS (iPhone 5S+), and Android (Samsung Note 4 and equivalents). Support for broader mobile hardware is coming soon, along with additional support for Mac and Linux. Please note that Sony and Microsoft only permit developers who have passed their screening process to develop games for their console platforms.

For me that sounds like Amazon is talking about Linux clients and not just Linux servers. But now you find this at the same place

*Q. What device platforms does Lumberyard support?*Lumberyard currently supports PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS (iPhone 5S+), and Android (Samsung Note 4 and equivalents). Lumberyard also supports dedicated servers on Windows and Linux. Additional support for MacOS is coming soon. Please note that Sony and Microsoft only permit developers who have passed their screening process to develop games for their console platforms.

Does that mean support for Linux clients is completely canceled?

asked 7 years ago181 views
6 Answers
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Let me follow up with the team. It may be a prioritization issue. I'll let you know.

answered 7 years ago
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Of course Linux support has a low priority and I really can understand that. But if the reason for the change in the FAQ is, that the priority of Linux support is even lower than before, I think it would be better to replace "Mac and Linux support is coming soon" with "Mac support is comming soon, followed by Linux support at a later time" instead of completely removing it.

answered 7 years ago
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Did you ever get an answer on this? I'd very much like to use lumberyard for some machine learning tasks as well as game development. If you ever get it running in linux, I'd love to give it a try - but adding a windows VM to my workflow is not something I'm interested in. For now, looks like Panda3D or Unity it is. :-(

answered 7 years ago
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A Linux editor isn't currently on the near-term horizon. We're currently prioritizing getting a MacOS client first as we have a lot of customer demand for this platform (especially iOS developers). Once we've gotten that out of the way, we'll take another look at overall customer interest for Linux editor.

Of course, we'll continue to support and improve Linux for Lumberyard dedicated servers.

answered 7 years ago
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It's unlikely that most macOS devs care about gaming more than us Linux... Well, maybe they are more willing to pay for AWS. But we Linux users don't use many things for free, we can pay too if we make profit...

answered 3 years ago
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I can definitely say that Linux support is not dropped. I can’t provide any timelines on when we’ll deliver full client and editor Linux support though.

answered 3 years ago

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