It seems like SketchUp uses OpenGL, which should be supported just fine by a linux GPU driver. I haven’t tried it myself, but you could maybe try running it through Proton (idk if there’s a way outside of Steam?)
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dellish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is great, but does it handle GPU acceleration yet? The main thing I still need Windoze for is SketchUp and I have never managed to get it to work because I get a GPU acceleration error. Any hints would be welcome.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 week ago
dellish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thanks, I see Bottles lets you use Proton as a runner so I’ll give that a try.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yes, for ages. What a weird question though. How are you set up?
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ok, but my question is does Wine run on Linux?
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yes, it does.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
OK, my question is - is wine just a windows emulator
dellish@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The closest I’ve come to getting it to work was SketchUp Make 2017 (the last of the free versions). I could get it to install using WINE but as soon as I ran it it would crash out saying I was not supporting graphics acceleration. Right now I’m trying to install SketchUp Pro 2021 using Bottles and just keep getting Invalid Handle errors all through the installation, mostly when it seems to be looking for certain KBs for Windows 7 and 8 I think. I have to dig through the Logs to hopefully find I’m missing a dependency somewhere.
To answer your question I’m running Linux Mint and have an AMD Radeon 7970XTX that is more than capable.