Published on October 15, 2025
This is a message to anyone trying to install Unity Game Engine on Gentoo with DWM. It has not worked. I first tried installing Unity Hub from a third party repo. It installed successfully, however, I could not create a new project. I know the error has something to do with 'xdg-desktop' and since I'm using dwm, there is probably something missing, but I could not figure it out. For now, I will just be using a flatpak. Everything works with flatpak, albiet a bitty buggy. Maybe in the future I'll go back and try to reinstall it via the 'correct' way. At least flatpaks sandbox and limit permissions for proprietary applications so it isn't totally bad.
TLDR: use flatpaks for garbage proprietary software like Unity.
Installation:
sudo emerge -aq sys-apps/flatpak
flatpak install flathub com.unity.UnityHub