I used to use macOS and I have a weaker extra PC with Windows that I barely use, but my main PC is now running Linux (ZorinOS). I really missed having a version of Solar2D for this system. I saw that there’s a very old version in snap and others in appimage, but none are 100% functional and up-to-date. Is the community really not interested in porting the version to Linux? Considering that many people are migrating from Windows to Linux because of Microsoft’s nonsensical requirements and the high cost of Macs? Several governments and people across Europe and the rest of the world are migrating to Linux to escape the control of big tech companies, so there’s nothing better than having this great tool in the Linux world. Is the only way to use Solar2D really to have another machine with a compatible operating system? Or resort to less performant methods like virtual machines?
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I used Solar2D on Linux for a while, building it from source. It worked well with HTML/Android builds.
However, most plugins currently don’t support Linux (I tried rebuid some from .dll to .a to make them work with Linux).
You can check this post.