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I wish it were not so but we are a long way from that. CAD/CAM unfortunately is not a application set that works well on minimum spec hardware.
The Linux community comes with a big expectation that old/free hardware runs fine. I feel we have to do a much better job with our OS X support where the hardware/software configurations are finite and manageable before we could offer a reliable Linux versions. The complexity of getting OS X done has been very high and continues to be. CAD technology has been so windows focused every project we take on has a period of time where getting the multi-platform support. Considering the similarities between the Windows and MacOS versions, I have to imagine you are already using cross-platform tools - most of which include Linux as peers with MacOS and Windows. Please consider adding support for Ubuntu to Fusion 360. Ubuntu has proven itself as much more than a last resort - it is simple, stable, secure, friendly to lab environments, and FREE. a constant negotiation of vendor add-ons, Microsoft license warnings, malware, viruses, etc. The main alternative - Windows - is unbearable. I can't invest in a company that doesn't support me as a user of their products. Apple's focus is clearly on high-level consumer products - they have left professionals (filmmakers, developers, artists, architects, etc) in the lurch as they continue to work at making MacOS more and more like iOS.
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On another note, I personally have moved away from MacOS because the high price of their hardware cannot be justified when compared to PC hardware.
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Clearly Autodesk has a big focus on education, with all of the free software that they provide to students. These are all reasons why Fusion 360 for Ubuntu would be great in an education environment. Running a lab of MacOS computers has become much more cumbersome than Windows recently, since many applications require the Mac App Store (which makes lab administration a nightmare).
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Also, running a Windows lab in an educational environment is infinitely more complex than the simplicity of Ubuntu computers (which can even run from a portable USB drive with extreme ease). Including Fusion 360 in that setup would be an extraordinary opportunity for students of Fab Academy and other laboratories and schools that have mirrored the FabLab hardware and software configuration. The MIT FabLab project (which has nearly 100 labs worldwide) uses Ubuntu extensively for their digital fabrication work, including the Fab Modules software that Neil Gershenfeld's Center for Bits and Atoms created (as well as other free software including OpenSCAD, Eagle PCB, Kokopelli, Meshlab, and the Autodesk 123D products that run in a web browser). Ubuntu requires far fewer resources than Windows, allowing more to be done with less (hardware) in those environments. More perspectives: For a computer lab - especially one in a school that doesn't have a lot of financial resources - Ubuntu is an excellent solution that doesn't require expensive Windows licenses.
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Many geeks switched from Linunx to Mac OSX or directly switched from Win to OSX instead of switching to Linux as Mac OSX simply is the better Unix style OS on the desktop. Personal oppinion on Linux as desktop OS: The forthcomming of Mac OSX after their switch to Intel CPUs has made Linux' life on the desktop even harder. As far as i know from other developers getting Linux ditributions under the hood and manage a really professional product on a high level is really hard work - dont know how true that is but that would make it a huge step.Īpart from that i think Ubuntu is of course by far the most important desktop distribution right now and surely will be in the near future. It may be a good expansion goal but at the current state of the software from what i can see i would say there are some more important features to add before secondary platforms (and i'd say Linux is a secondary platform for a design and construction tool) are getting important. Hmm to be honest i personally would not see Linux as the next important step to take.
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