Why are there no similar Revit, Robot, Lyra, etc. CAD programs for Linux?

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Hello, Comrades, dear community. At work, there is one guy-engineer who works in Linux, on CAD programs similar to compass-3D and autocad, everything flies with him and he doesn’t bathe, but I work on win 7 and everything slows down and bugs me all the time. A colleague is a designer, he can use these programs, but I'm a designer and there are no necessary-like programs in Linux. The file for calculation or for editing needs about 10 minutes to open. The computer is not weak, Windows is almost empty, only for work. The admin configured everything, but the difference in performance is very much felt. At the same time, I noticed that my colleague did not have a single glitch for 3 months, but I have a stable 1-2 week. It goes into a crash, you have to save as often as possible, it's annoying. Will other Linux CAD programs be translated or is this a worldwide conspiracy?

Answer 1

Everything depends on the number of users, a classic problem: there are no users, no programs, and vice versa.
And falls and brakes are rather connected with the quality of the written software than with the OS.

Answer 2

It's not about users, as everyone often says, but about two things:
1) Habit, people are used to using Windows, and there is not much profit to switch and use other systems.
2) There is no one to move Linux as they move Windows. And yes, no one needs it. Here you need this software and you are sitting on Windows because of this, what is the point of the company to invest in the Linux version?
You can look at the example of the well-known products of Adobe. How many years have they been asked to release software for niks, but they do not do this, since the audience is small. But if a large company, for example Canonical, would negotiate, they could pay part of the cost of portraiture. Along the way, I would have agreed with vendors on the sale of PCs with Ubuntu on board and, most importantly, I would have carried out an advertising campaign about the coolness of my system, it would be in the bag.

Answer 3

Hello
I think the question is not accurate ... there are a lot of reasons that lead to the collapse of the system. Himself used Win 7 + AutoCAD 2007 at work. I had an old Sony Vaio, but I did not observe any glitches, I drew calmly for myself.
2 years ago I switched to Linux and was pleasantly surprised by a LARGE number of analogues of programs and a completely different philosophy for software. Usually a lot of things are right in the distribution repositories.
Started with Ubuntu > Fedora > CentOS > Kali Linux > OpenSuse.
In terms of simplicity and extensive support, Ubuntu wins, I advise you to taste it, because you can burn the image to a USB flash drive or disk (which is less common) and run it in NOT installing the OS directly from the USB flash drive.
In recent years, I have noticed a big trend in the spread of FOSS
A very clear example is the well-known Blender, which is not inferior in quality to 3D Max.
More from life.
There is a large server at work, during the work a lot of money was paid to support Win Server, just the other day it was decided to switch to Linux with full virtualization of several servers. And the chief engineer for migration to Linux said that Win is dying as an OS ...
I myself currently have CentOS running on it with other systems, including Win.
If you still need Win programs, it's worth looking into the Wine project , which supports a fair amount of Win programs right on a Linux machine.
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Answer 4

The opinion of a Linux user with seven years of experience who works with Revit, Akad, Robot, SCAD, etc., etc.
It's simple:
1. The cost of a Windows license is nothing compared to the cost of a license for such software.
2. Such software is initially written for a platform-dependent environment. For the sake of the current one percent of Linux users (and users in the office will also have to be retrained), no one will rewrite software. Brikskad did it, carved his niche - and that's all for now.
3. Specific problems of your software will not go anywhere even when it is ported to Linux. Something does not work or slows down - write bug reports to the developer.
4. If the problems are with performance - ask for adequate hardware and kick the system administrator.