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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    What software is that? Is it something with a really heavy desktop client by nature (e.g CAD, video editing), or could it instead have a browser-based frontend?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yes, CAD/CAM stuff like Catia, SW, mastercam, etc. It will take a lot of market share improvements to convince the developers to bother with a port. I'm no M$ fanboy, just no real production alternative.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

    So much grief caused by the widespread move from Unix to Windows in the industry sector. The Unix dwarves grew too greedy, their hardware platforms too niche… they unleashed the beast from the depths. An IBM-PC so powerful, it quashed their empires!

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I really wish SW ran on Linux. That would get me to switch over entirely.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    you can run sw 2022 and 2023 in some distros. https://github.com/cryinkfly/SOLIDWORKS-for-Linux

    doesn't work in mint tho, i tried.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    How good does it run in the supported distros?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

    no idea, i can't get any other distros to work properly

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    I reckon they might be using a lot of Windows specific libraries, making any porting a real pain in the ass. And when you're in that space, unfortunately people just have to choose the OS that goes with their applications, not the other way around.

    It's literally easier to start an entirely new CAD/CAM project and make that cross-platform. Unfortunately, that's a 7 or 8 figure proposition to get started as well (probably 8 for a polished product that can pull proper market share).