somebody tell trimble to make a software compatible with any operating system,including linux,period!!!
That topic has already been beaten to death, period!!! There are already threads on this topic. Maybe theyâll change their mind if you tell them.
itâs funny, if you had picked a thread name containing Linux, you would have had suggestions on your bottom right part of your screen. and you would have found out that someone made sketchup 2026 run in some linux distrib.
but you called it Suggestion.
take a minute, search the feature request section where your thread is located, or better, do a search on the forum.
It is possible that Linux is not compatible with all the frameworks or libraries that SketchUp and LayOut rely on.
I am currently working on a project using virtually no external libraries, which make me experiment automatic compatibility across Mac, Windows, and Linux.
On the other hand, many commercial applications, such as SketchUp, rely on third-party technologies that make cross-platform compatibility either difficult to achieve or more expensive to maintain.
Linux is about 3% of the desktop/laptop market share. If it was more comparable to macOS at around 15% then it might get some consideration.
right. except it apparently is.
loh, and behold, instructions on github to make sketchup 26 run on linux.
yeah, letâs stop spamming about your product everywhere shall we ? after all, there is a no spam policy for extension developers, why should you be allowed to spam about your personal sketchup killer project ?
I guess you couldnât resist coming here to post about itâŚ
The graphics engine could be the problem. The classic SU engine uses OpenGLâwhich works everywhere, including on Linuxâbut it is deprecated (though it still functions for now). A switch to Vulkan would have been the way to go, but the proprietary APIs DirectX (Windows) and Metal (macOS) were chosen instead. They do not work on Linux.
But there is other frameworks involved inside SU.