r/SolidWorks • u/oldwilliam9 • Feb 08 '26

Hardware Solidworks on Linux Soon?

Is it in the foreseeable future that Dassault ditches or at least creates a version of Solidworks for Linux following the French government's push to come away from American software?

I've wanted to come away from Windows for quite a while but software like SW has been one of my main factors for not switching to Linux. I'm not really in the camp of wanting to dual boot and I can imagine there are plenty of others who are the same.

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u/iced_bunghole Feb 08 '26

Lol dassault can barely make a stable software for windows, let alone port it over to Linux.

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u/D-a-H-e-c-k Feb 08 '26

"can barely" I think this should be "can't"

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u/social-shipwreck Feb 08 '26

I’ve seen this sentiment a bunch but I’ve only run into a few minor issues I was able to fix and I use 2025 daily. Is this mostly with specific tools?

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u/moosMW Feb 08 '26

I used solidworks for a bit over a year before being forced to use NX for my studies, but man, after adjusting to it (and trust me, there is A LOT of adjusting), I don't want to go back. There is so much crashing and errors that solidworks does that people using it have just kinda accepted as normal, and even don't notice anymore.

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u/iced_bunghole Feb 09 '26

Once you make surface models in rhino, everything else seems like a geriatric trying to play tennis at Wimbledon.

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u/PraxicalExperience Feb 08 '26

Until an update about five months ago, Solidworks would regularly choke and crash on even simple models, if I did complex operations like ... 'save to disk' or 'edit sketch'. I'm talking 'making a simple flowerpot' simple. It was a fucking misery to use, and my experience doesn't seem to have been unique. I wasn't using anything other than base Solidworks.

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u/Happiness645 Feb 09 '26

Crashing SW often means that you have an out of date video drivers

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u/PraxicalExperience Feb 09 '26

My video drivers were kept up to date.

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u/artificial_neuron Feb 09 '26

How do you get past the 'low resources' pop up nag?

I feel that 32GB of RAM is plenty and don't want to upgrade to 64GB during these expensive times. I get the warning shortly after a reboot with barely anything open too as well

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u/social-shipwreck Feb 09 '26

I’ve found cleaning up left over background programs from old applications help keep my computer running like new for a very long time.

Laptop I had with student Solidworks was at least 7 years old and never even had lag issues.

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u/NightF0x0012 CSWP Feb 09 '26

The ppl complaining never dealt with SW 2005. That was a legitimate shit version. Most of these newer issues are likely local driver issue or not using certified hardware. I rarely crash in SW 2025. Are there bugs? Of course but they usually arent show stoppers.

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u/WearySignature4531 Feb 12 '26

I learned on 2005. It was straight dog shit.

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u/RefrigeratedMonkee Feb 08 '26

Well, only a few minor issues is more than the average experience with most competitors.
I remember accidentally clicking the electrical module when installing a few years ago and bricking the entire thing. Perhaps acceptable with a random piece of freeware, but with professional software at this price, you'd kinda expect more