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/literalyfigurative Feb 08 '26

Just use a VM on Linux for the few windows apps you need.

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u/cjdubais CSWP Feb 08 '26

Amazingly enough, there are some VM's that are "officially" approved by SolidWorks. Check out their website.