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So far the best option have been Remmina. Connect other computer(windows) from your Linux desktop.
 
All the core Alibre libraries are compiled against .Net framework 4.8 which is heavily dependent on Windows and is not cross platform, That said, I know some users have reported at least partial success getting Alibre to run on Linux. Personally, I wouldn't waste my time. If and when Alibre is compiled against .Net Core 6.0 or higher it 'might' be worth a try.
 
Mika said:
So far the best option have been Remmina. Connect other computer(windows) from your Linux desktop.
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I am a user of Alibre and I have an Alibre pro and atom license. Unfortunately with the current environment that Microsoft has created with windows 11 and their tyrannical policies I am seriously considering totally switching to Linux. Until recently Linux has had no serious contenders in the 3D Cad world. But I have recently been made aware of a native Linux CAD offering that will change that and it is called ZW3D and ZWcad that are full parametric and very robust. Now I would rather have Alibre be put out in a native Linux option, but I do not see that in the cards. My privacy and my desire in controlling the use of my computer the way I want to use it and not some draconian software company calling the shots is making tha OS decision much easier.
 
danwrnr11 said:
I am a user of Alibre and I have an Alibre pro and atom license. Unfortunately with the current environment that Microsoft has created with windows 11 and their tyrannical policies I am seriously considering totally switching to Linux. Until recently Linux has had no serious contenders in the 3D Cad world. But I have recently been made aware of a native Linux CAD offering that will change that and it is called ZW3D and ZWcad that are full parametric and very robust. Now I would rather have Alibre be put out in a native Linux option, but I do not see that in the cards. My privacy and my desire in controlling the use of my computer the way I want to use it and not some draconian software company calling the shots is making tha OS decision much easier.
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This is something we've been talking heavily about in the "How is Wine Support in 2021?" thread.
Alibre runs using either WinBoat or WinApps, but since each of them use FreeRDP to view the virtual machine, it is very laggy and slow to use Alibre. Even using libvirt with WinApps, which is capable of GPU pass-through, there's going to be significant lag. It's unusable. I haven't been able to use Alibre in nearly a month because of this. The only real solution is for Alibre to get to a stage where it's working through Wine or Proton, or for a native Linux version of Alibre to become available.

We are not the only Alibre users having this problem, and there are many more now that Microsoft making their OS worse each day. At this point, I'd get on my knees and beg if I could: please, Alibre devs, just help us get it running through Wine or Proton. Please. I'll do anything. I want Alibre on Linux.
 
To anyone who hasn't heard the confirmation:
On the Helpdesk Live Livestream from a few weeks ago, it was confirmed that v29 should no longer use any more of Microsoft's proprietary .NET architecture. That should make it much better for trying to run in proton or wine I would think.
 
JimCad said:
I would love to get away from Windows but I also don't want Apple.
But I don't have the knowledge to mess about. It would need to "just work"

Jim
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Try Linux Mint or, I believe it's called Zorin OS. Both are excellent Linux distros.
I got my mom on Linux Mint about 1 month ago and she loves it. She's been a Windows user for 25 years.
 
JimCad said:
All of my software is Windows based so probably quite a bit of tinkering to get everything running.
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It depends. Trying to get everything running through Wine is exhausting. But there are more things that run on Linux natively than you'd think. Another option might be Windows 10 LTSC, which is what I'm using for Alibre right now
 
JimCad said:
VERY interesting. I'd never heard of that. Just had a quick look.
I'll look deeper after Christmas. FAR too busy now.
Thank you very much.

Jim
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So getting a product key for LTSC is relatively interesting territory for an individual. Which is why I dual boot Windows and Linux (on two separate drives so Windows doesn't get any funny ideas), and I run Alibre (and anything else that just won't run on Linux) on the Windows drive, and then Linux for all else. They each have their own boot drive and then I have a few shared data drives.

Edit: should've been more specific, I dual boot not only for Windows-dependent software but also because I intend to leave LTSC unactivated.
 
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Weekdayweekend said:
Try Linux Mint or, I believe it's called Zorin OS. Both are excellent Linux distros.
I got my mom on Linux Mint about 1 month ago and she loves it. She's been a Windows user for 25 years.
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I run ZORIN 18. Very happy so far. Tried to run Alibre in Wine but, for now, not recommended
 
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