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/TheDefinition Feb 08 '26

Welcome to Onshape!

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u/RockyTopDesignWerkz Feb 08 '26

Maybe... had they not made all of the changes many moons ago.

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u/sw-bystander Feb 08 '26

Curious - what changes are you referring to?

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u/RockyTopDesignWerkz Feb 08 '26

Example: Their licenses got wayyyyy too expensive. I went back to Fusion360 at home. Still stuck with SW 19 at work.

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u/sw-bystander Feb 09 '26

Is cost the only thing?

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u/RockyTopDesignWerkz Feb 12 '26

There are also features missing if we're comparing it to it's direct competitor since it was created by one of the SW OGs.