I recently saw this and it pissed me off so much. I use vivado for my engineering coursework and when I found out they dropped Linux support for the 2026.1 version it does sting a little.

I don't blame them for doing it, my immediate reaction to the news was people were taking advantage of vivado who weren't actually students so I completely understand there stance, I just wish there was another way...

the article is quite misleading describing it as a "bait-and-switch." It is not a bait and switch, this is a reasonable stance of which if I were working at amd in the FPGA line I too would make that decision to pull the free version of vivado/vitis away from Linux. Whether or not you believe that is up to you.

anyways, as much as I do respect amd's decision I have moved away to f4pga which is an open source fpga toolchain. doesn't have much device support as you may get with vivado (7-series, and a few other microcontroller brands) but it offers enough for my use case.