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

  • the16bitgamer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I personally use FreeCad. But for school you are probably SOL.

    If you absolutely need non wine compatible software on your machine you’ll need to:

    1. Dualboot if you care for power

    2. Use a VM if you don’t care for the additional overhead

    3. try wine and see what happens

    See if your school has labs for this, might be easier and the computer might be faster than your laptop.

    • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Personally I’ll just use windows since I don’t mind it that much, although even in my few weeks using it on the laptop I got windows 11 is significantly worse than 10, been having some goofy audio mixing issues. I do kinda want to try it on wine tho just for the hell of it and see what happens.

      • the16bitgamer@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s a fun rabbit hole, and you’ll be surprise what works.

        If you do try, Lutris is my go to tool to install and manage windows programs. That way you can try different versions of wine/proton.

        However there’s a reason my main rig still runs Windows. I have Moonlight and Sunshine installed on it so I can remote access windows in my house.