DOES AUTODESK FUSION 360 SUPPORT LINUX OS
@Anonymous
I as a creative person that works with all 3 OS slightly have to disagree with you here.
Look for us much as Linux was hyped and such it never gained and never will gain
the acceptance and saturation Win and macOS have.
The reasons for that is the nature of Linux distribution itself and how diverse it is.
As trippy explained Linux has just too many versions and such to make that really a usable platform.
Linux is actually used in CG a lot because of the raw processing power it can have but this are specialized cases.
I agree that the power of Linux is good but the reason why macOS is so much better at design
and media handling is not be cause it has commercial support but because the human interface
and how apps and files are interlinked just is better than Windows or Linux.
Take a look at what Windows focuses on - it still has no PDF support build in.
I think Linux would have been better in case they would have focused development.
One success story here is Android.
Fusion is cloud connected so in case the browser based app can be close to some of the desktop modules like sketching and modeling (OnShape can do it)
then I think the web app will be good for the Linux users.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
What other CAD system are you currently using on Linux and did you post your concerns on their forums ?and what were responses there.
You have a pretty clear choice at this moment: If you NEED a CAD system you either use Windows or macOS.
Just to be clear, I am not against an implementation of Fusion 360 on on a Linux platform. I just don't think that it is realistic to expect that in the next say 5 years. There are too many areas in Fusion 360 that need to be brought up to a level where it can compete with other solutions on the market and implementing this on a 3rd OS platform is a pretty large and complex task.
The fundamental difference is the number of potential paying customers. Other than being open source and having hundreds of different versions, what is it about Linux that would make it worth using?
p.s. I have a Linux machine running LinuxCNC that I use most every day. It suits the purpose well.
ETFrench
@7503777 wrote:
I do not understand. If you compiled a program for OS X, why can not you do the same for Linux? There is no need to write a new source code For this. If you do not want to do this because linux is not so popular, but if the Fusion 360 is available for this system, you have great chance of changing the market for operating systems in the world) !
I transitioned to Linux from MS DOS before Windows 3.11 was on the market. I've used Linux for 15 years for computer graphics, programming etc.
If there was ever a chance for Linux to change the desktop operating system market, it is long gone!
Enterprise software is a bit more complex than just compiling it for a different OS. While macOS is a microkernel BSD UNIX variant that does not mean it can simply be compiled and then runs on Linux. That is just a ridiculously uninformed statement.
Before responding to my message please read the rest of the posts in this thread and the maybe go to the Idea station and read the responses in the Linux/Ubuntu idea.
Then maybe we have a common basis to further discuss this topic, or perhaps put it to rest.
It wont happen to ADSK know they will not lose money doing it or will make it back within a set time, if you can get every linux user to give $10 each it would happen then 
To be clear I use to disagree with this idea.
