Installing Unity

Okay; after all of that, you've decided to go with Unity – great decision! Now, where do we start? Let's start with a simple but necessary first step: installing Unity. This seems like a straightforward first step, but let's discuss the proper way to install it. In this section, we will be looking at the following concepts:

• Unity technical requirements
• Unity installs
• Installing Unity with Unity Hub

Let's start by discussing what we need to run Unity on our computers.

Unity Technical Requirements

To run Unity 2021, your computer will need to meet the following requirements:

• If you use Windows, you will need Windows 7 SP1 or higher, 8 or 10. Unity will only run on 64-bit versions of those systems; there is no 32-bit support unless you are willing to work with older versions of Unity such as 5.6, but that's outside the scope of this book.
• For Mac, you need macOS 10.13 or higher.
• For Linux, you...