Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux? How did you find the process?

On 2009-11-12, John Hasler <jhasler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Rikishi42 writes:
On the other hand: you use Autocad. Is there a program that reads DWG
drawings? Not likely. There are to few users that use CAD, so you'll need
some luck there.

There are plenty of users. The problem is Autodesk.

Yes, but that is true for all vendors.

Bentley actually had a Linux version of their MicroStation, back in the days
of SuSE 6.x or early 7.x. But they dropped it, as they did the releases for
MacOS.

Trouble is, they won't be going back to being multi-platform. Once they only
had to deal with Windows, they could use things like VB, .Net and such, to
replace their own porgramming languages. Saves them development/maintenance
time. Going back to supporting their own Basic and their MKL language for
each platform, is simply not going to happen. Sadly.


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