Running Autocad in Linux?

He's one of these people who think Linux is some perfect operating system. I
don't often agree to M$'s money hungry tactics but Linux has its limitations
as well. Linux has had years to prove itself, yet remains on the periphery
of the OS market. I also have Linux and it has proven not to be a cure-all.
We use XP sp2 in the office and it performs well. I find the problems people
have are due to the lack of understanding the proper configuration of it.

My main gripe is that developers of high cost professional software such as
AutoCAD need to work to improve the stability of it. AutoCAD crashes due to
a problem with the dwg far too much. Better error trapping is in order. I've
never seen Windows XP crash (unless there was a hardware failure). People
who dealt with Windows 95, 98, ME (shudder) and perhaps NT (many vendors
could never get NT drivers right or no drivers at all) had valid complaints.
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Someone posing as BG250 dropped their pants and wrote on the wall:


(Top posting corrected.)

Actually the reason I don't like XP has nothing to do with drawing or
playing with an OS.

I'd prefer to use a stable OS which isn't a downgrade from the previous
version. Here at home, I dual-boot Win2K and Linux. I use Windows when
necessary, but find it inconvenient and limiting. If the applications
exist on Linux, I'd prefer to use this OS. In addition, I'm not worried
about viruses/spyware on Linux, because they just can't happen like the do
in Windows NT (xp/2k). I still use Win2K because I believe it a fast and
fairly stable upgrade from NT4.

WinXP (a.k.a. NT 5.1) is a poor merge of Win2K and Me, with too many
limiting factors and stability issues. I won't use it at home.

Actually I am not. I just think that Linux sucks less than Windows for a
modern OS. I've been using WinNT since it was called OS/2 1.3 and highly
recommended it for awhile, particularly when NT 4 came out in '96.

Your argument here is flawed - you equate popularity with quality. MS used
to have a decent OS (Nt 3.51/4) but has failed to keep up with the times.
It is only through their massive vendor influence that they've remained
anywhere near the top.

Nope - Linux cannot be a cure-all. I - for one - cannot run my ATI video
capture card drivers under Linux. Is that the fault of the OS? No. Just the
fact that ATI never wrote drivers for this card.

That is often the case. I have not this issue - in fact the issues I have
with stability and OS performance are well-known.

I am very new to Autocad as I am now implementing a large-scale facilities
management project where AutoCAD is used in conjunction with Archibus/FM.
I agree with the stability. I find it crashes far too often. In addition,
the UI is pathetic, IMO.

However, many more applications crash on my WinXP machines than do on my 2K
machines. I am constantly sending those little error reports.

As for my Linux box, I've only had a few lesser-known apps crash, and have
never seen a BSOD.