07-13-2018, 11:13 AM
I doubt there is an ideal solution, but if as Janet says students go on to university they may need to use industry standard CAD such as Rhino, Solidworks, Adobe CS etc., and these don't run on Linux.
My own dual boot is for the purposes of having a spare Win7 os. I do cad work on an entirely separate laptop running Win7 which is almost never online. I do bring email attachments from this LL laptop over to the Win7 laptop, from known correspondents (not any guarantee that they haven't been infected with malware of course), and so far no problems. But as I say I'm keeping the "spare" Win7 partition as a backup just in case!
It is a shortcoming in Linux that these industry CADs don't run thereon. A discussion I saw somewhere suggested the problem is that there isn't yet a critical mass of users to fund the work needed to re-code these complex progs. Anyway, that is another topic!
My own dual boot is for the purposes of having a spare Win7 os. I do cad work on an entirely separate laptop running Win7 which is almost never online. I do bring email attachments from this LL laptop over to the Win7 laptop, from known correspondents (not any guarantee that they haven't been infected with malware of course), and so far no problems. But as I say I'm keeping the "spare" Win7 partition as a backup just in case!
It is a shortcoming in Linux that these industry CADs don't run thereon. A discussion I saw somewhere suggested the problem is that there isn't yet a critical mass of users to fund the work needed to re-code these complex progs. Anyway, that is another topic!
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