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Where I work, I'd love to move our remaining Windows boxes to linux, but there's often software that only works on Windows. How well does Wine work these days?
by 1over137 1y ago
Where I work, I'd love to move our remaining Windows boxes to linux, but there's often software that only works on Windows. How well does Wine work these days? Can they run CAD software for example?
- SoftTalker 1y agoIt’s often more a question of “will the vendor support it” than “can it run.”
- 1over137 1y agoVendor support is mostly useless at the best of times. I'm more interested in 'can it run'.
- zrobotics 1y agoCAD machines are some of the few in our company that are staying windows instead of going to Linux. We're an autodesk shop, I tested fusion under Debian 6 months ago and it didn't work very well. I tried proton and wine, couldn't get either to work great and had issues. It would launch, but opening a medium complexity assembly was laggy, and the CAM module would crash fairly often. I can't speak for other programs from personal experience though. That said, for home use freecad has gotten a lot better after the ondsel changes were merged, I was using the free liscence of fusion360 for personal projects, and moved over to freecad 6 months ago. I'd originally tried it 7 or 8 years ago, and it was just absolutely awful to use, but modern versions are really very good. There wasn't a huge learning curve, and I haven't run into anything that the program can't do. For hobby CAD, I'm using it for 3d printing, a Cnc mill, and making prints for manual machining. Honestly, I've been less frustrated with freecad than fusion360, it does a better job of getting out of my way and letting me design things. That said, I'm a software dev and IT guy, I don't know if it would work for commercial use. I certainly didn't push for the engineers to change, but their workstations are already running win11 that I had to debloat.
- heavyset_go 1y agoHere's a list of CAD application and their ratings on AppDB: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=category&iId=59&sAction=view&sTitle=Browse+Applications https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=category&i...
- grogenaut 1y agoJust run it in a windows vm for just that use, there's great ways to make this almost seamless in linux. works better than win/etc.
- fainpul 1y agoCAD applications usually require graphics acceleration. I've tried to make Fusion 360 work on linux using VMware, VirtualBox and GNOME Boxes – performance was unacceptably bad.
- 1over137 1y agoWhat's the point of putting it in a VM? That doesn't get rid of Windows, which was the whole point.
- beeflet 1y agoNot really. On linux, you have OpenSCAD (which is okay for some applications) and you have FreeCAD (which sucks imo). Right now, I just use OnShape which works in my web browser and is similar to SOLIDWORKS (and it's $0 for students). In the future I will try running windows CAD under linux using kvm and this: https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary
- phendrenad2 1y agoJust use Windows lol
- beeflet 1y agoI need to use both. It's easier for me to run windows in kvm than it is to run linux in WSL. (And more reliable in the long run, because I don't have to deal with changing windows update shenanigans)