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Solidworks and other industry-class CAD software on linux (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by astropenguin5 to c/[email protected]

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I am about to go to college for engineering and they require a Windows laptop because of the software we will be using (mostly solidworks I'm pretty sure) doesn't work on other operating systems. I primarily use windows day-to-day for gaming and such anyways so it's not a problem for me but I'm wondering if anyone had experience using solidworks or any other industry-class CAD software like Inventor on linux

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in the same spot. Ended up just buying a cheap SSD and dual booting with windows 10. It's definitely not as convenient as it could be, but it works perfectly.

[–] astropenguin5 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah my main PC is dual-booted Linux mint and Windows 10, I used Windows more over time both because gaming is slightly easier but also the way my dad set it up there were time controls on Linux and not on windows so as soon as I figured out or was given the windows password it all went downhill.

I want to get back into using Linux more but I'm worried it won't be until after college