I’m not a Linux evangelist, but I have recently embraced Linux Mint, everything works, everything is much faster, except my Sketchup Pro License. My only reason to boot back into Windows is Sketchup. I’ve read about people getting Sketchup pro 2025 working on proton, so it does work but it’s painfu…

have you tried this ? works with su 26 [image] Sketchup Pro Linux Support Feature Requests

Thanks for this… my point to the Sketchup dudes is - if it can be made to work on Linux - why not save us money paying subscribers the pain - and make it easy?! I can’t be arsed to follow 58 threads comments, aggro and voodoo. everything else now works on Linux… I can play pretty much any high perfo…

That’s totally true. They do have AI at their disposal now, but I imagine they’re pretty busy with other priorities at the moment. Have you tried experimenting with AI yourself? GE-Proton is open source, so Codex could help you download and install it, then configure a dedicated environment for Sket…

I would love to use linux instead of windows 11 but unfortunately I don’t think that even with the massive migration, there aren’t enough users to make it worth it for trimble, not all the people that have migrated to Linux use Sketchup so right now all the linux users make around 4%, from that 4% p…

[image] benjycov: I can’t be arsed to follow 58 threads comments, aggro and voodoo. Maybe the Trimble team has decided they can’t be arsed to check and write / rewrite and then support all the code for what I assume would be a very very tiny percentage of their user base. You think you have …

[image] benjycov: my point to the Sketchup dudes is - if it can be made to work on Linux - why not save us money paying subscribers the pain - and make it easy?! I can’t be arsed to follow 58 threads comments, aggro and voodoo. I assume you were aware of the requirements when you subscribed. h…

[image] benjycov: I can’t be arsed what are you talking about ? I gave you a link. then you just have to click on the other link. here, the even more direct link. next step is me remote controlling your machine and installing it myself. but I’m on vacation, so I also can’t be arsed …

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