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      Aerilius
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      I've been using Ubuntu (because it's elegant and relatively mainstream, most commercial software and games choose it as reference/supported platform. If Linux wasn't enough individualism, I'd maybe have chosen something more exotic). As a unix (like OS X) it is especially nice for (Ruby) programming which is a bit less integrated on Windows. And a small gem is that scrolling in SketchUp doesn't require a mouse-click into the viewport/component browser/etc. first.

      I suppose the performance question is about SketchUp on both platforms. There is a little but for me not very noticeable tradeoff, but Wine is not a "real" emulator and not laggy like for example BlueStacks (Android), it is rather a (Windows) API that just passes calls through to the unix system.

      Wine can mimic different Windows versions (and bitness) side by side. What I meant as tricky is that it defaults to a 32bit Windows where clicking a 64bit installer would fail obviously, and you have to tell it to mimic a 64bit environment. We are about to update the SketchUp sages pages soon and will include the exact steps.

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        kaas
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        Thanks for your reply. I was very curious so I tested a few live-cd's. Ubuntu (desktop for developers-edition) looked nice but was really slow compared to Debian. Maybe because it's a live cd?!
        For now, I'm still looking for a way to start SketchUp64 in Wine. Will do some more searching and testing.

        An update to the sages page would be great!

        have a nice day.

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          Aerilius
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          CD drives are by several orders of magnitude the slowest part on a computer (most people use Live USB keys now). Everything that needs to be loaded from CD (boot, application start) will take some time until it's in RAM. This won't be on an installed system (actually file/disk operations and CPU tasks are a strength rather than GPU tasks).

          But Live CDs/USBs are good for trying out. I wished Microsoft offered this for Windows 10, then people would (maybe) not anymore find out to late which software is not supported on a new/preview/beta system.

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            kaas
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            Sorry, my mistake. I did use a live USB. It's great indeed for trying out.

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