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One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).
Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...
That's unhelpful. The person might be a professional in a work that mandates using Fusion360. "FreeCAD is the best Linux supported CAD program but you should try running a VM inside of Linux and see if fusion 360 works a" is way more helpful.
I mean when I first tried FreeCAD a few months ago I couldn't get it to function AT ALL. Literally everything I tried to do took minutes to process and this happened on several different PCs. That issue somehow resolved itself and it's working now but it left me very wary of relying on the application, if I had been on a deadline I'd have been fucked. Never had a problem like that with Fusion360.
Well yeah, but some companies allow employees to choose their OS. Of course FreeCAD is good enough just like Gimp and Blender are good enough to replace Adobe stuff but sometimes people have workflows built around them or even custom scripts that only run on a specific platform.
You make a fair point but the tone might be off-putting for people thinking about switching to Linux. 100% mention FreeCAD as a fully featured CAD software that just works on Linux but we shouldn't heckle him for wanting Fusion360.
If they're a pro and the software doesn't support the OS, it'd be kinda foolish to not stick with what's supported.i