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

  • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Yep I’m doing mechanical engineering, and already like doing CAD on solidworks and have experience on it already so there’s no way I’m going to switch anytime soon. This post really wasnt intended to be trying to find how to run it on Linux, more just to see if it’s even remotely possible out of curiosity.

    My current plan is to just run raw windows 11 on the Dell Precision 3571 that I got recently, I don’t use Linux nearly enough on my dual booted PC to warrant putting it on my laptop too, even though the PC will stay at home for the time being

    • Raphael@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Don’t dual boot latest Windows, use 10, ideally the LTSC version but it’s a taad harder to “acquire” and set up.

      Latest will always have too many updates and moving parts. W11 also has much more crap running in the background which might be an issue if you’re running heavy software on weaker hardware.

      • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Yeah my current setup is far from ideal, my laptop is pretty solid though, it’s better than my PC. Win 11 is kinda sucky from the few weeks I’ve been using it though

        • Raphael@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I tried it for a while to satiate my inner nerd’s curiosity and I liked it though, still worse than Linux on both technical and moral grounds however.

          • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            Yeah for the most part it is fine, it’s just given me some weird problems I haven’t had before, not sure if windows is to blame or the computer itself. For some reason whenever I am playing a game on steam and also in a voice call on discord the game audio will get cut out and/or distorted a lot of the time. The overall complaints are of course being somewhat bloated and morals.

            • Raphael@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Nah, it is not the bloat.

              Windows sucks. Linux is much better. Keep using Linux and you’ll see it.