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Did that about a year ago. It’s a giant pain in my ass but not bigger than MS’s incessant begging or not being in control of my own computer.

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Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pretty much the only thing holding me back right now is Fusion 360 (really good CAD modelling software)

As soon as I can find a good alternative that does what I need it to do I can jump ship pretty painlessly

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- bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Are you paying for a seat to use Fusion or just the freebie hobby licence? You can switch over to OnShape if you want something commercial. It’s totally OS agnostic because it runs in a browser window. Otherwise you can don the sackcloth and ashes and switch to FreeCAD like I did, (it’s not as hard to learn as it gets made out to be), and be free of controlling corporations.
  
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  - Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    OnShape is something I think of as really cool but their terms for using it for free are a bit meh IMO
    
    Now if I could selfhost something like OnShape that would be ideal but it doesn’t look like anyone is working on something like that (and my coding skills are non-existent in the the face of such a challenge of making one)
    
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    bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That is a price to pay for universal accessibility I guess. But I find it’s not particularly onerous in practical application - I teach it to high school students because it will run on a simple school issued Chromebook. And since the majority of CAD users are 3D printing, most are only working on single part items anyway. Very few are trying to create multipart assemblies anyway. YMMV of course.
    
    I use FreeCAD because where I live, the internet connection can be iffy, (along with electric service and mail period), and I prefer the local install vs the half-arsed local/cloud install of Fusion or the total cloud base of OnShape for my personal use. YMMV for your needs of course.
    
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- Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ever considered running Windows in a VM, with hardware pass through if needed for performance?
  
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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have a dual boot. There are plenty of Linux or browser-based alternatives. Or you can run it through Bottles or even Steam (Proton works for all exe’s, not just games).
  
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