Would be excellent.

Im using skethcup 7 on Ubuntu 8.10 for two weeks now, thanks for this post, the speed it's the same of XP for me, I have a Geoforce 8400 GS. I had to disable the anti-aliasing in the ubuntu NVIDIA X Server Settings and use save to X Configuration File to really disable the AA.
By now there is only two major problens:

• I can't get the Shadow window do appear, even by hotkey or the window menu.
• The Zoom Window command get the sketchup window to turn black and it doesn't recover, i have to save and open sketchup again.

The other things that happen is that before I export some 2D graphics I have to change the format to bmp and then again to jpg to export right. All of that I can live with, the thing that I really miss is the Thumbnail preview in windows explorer before I open a file.

Me too, I really miss the back button.

@pbacot said:

It seems most people just really wanted High-Poly and Multi-Core. Better modeling will just let these whiz-kidz max-out their models a little faster.

I just don´t know how do multi-core could be of any value besides export videos and images, I think there isn´t any other modeling program with multi core enabled 3d Viewport.

Modelling
Sketchup

Rendering
Kerkythea

Image processing
Gimp