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I've been using it through wine for two years now, using this repo.
It works surprisingly well, sometimes there's some flickering, but not enough to prevent me from working. It gets a bit slow to react on big assemblies, though that might also be the case on windows. logging in is a pain, luckily that's only every 1-2 months (you need to log in on the homepage, copy the login id and run a cli command with the id, within the 30 seconds before the id expires. Usually takes me 2-3 tries because i forget it after 2 months). it not seeing linux drives and having to copy files from/to wine's drive_c is a bit annoying.
but overall it's good enough, haven't booted the windows partition in those two years and I'm willing to deal with this to be windows free. But if i had to use it professionally as a daily driver, that would probably be different.
I did have to reinstall it twice in the two year period, though.
may I ask what distro ur using? I tried this and I couldn't get it to run, spent hours troubleshooting
Arch Linux. First on i3, later on wayland with Sway, where I had lots of flickering, so I'd use XFCE (with x11) specifically for Fusion work (so log out and log in with xfce when i wanted to use fusion). and now Niri, which works well enough for flickering, but has issues with fusion 360's modal windows not being in the right place, so i use a Labwc window inside Niri and force Fusion to run in that, mostly because i grew tired of switching to xfce. I would recommend xfce if you want less hassle. Haven't tried with gnome or kde.
Do you remember what issues you had? Whenever i had trouble in the past (e.g. with logging in), i usually found a solution in the github issues (i guess both GH aud codeberg issues now that the project moved)
I get to the fusion360 installation window, when its halfway through it just crashes.
I use arch Linux with cinnamon de and openRC as my initsystem
That repo seems to have just been archived though. That would worry me if I were starting to use it now.
But I'm using it on windows, on my game machine.
Oh you're right, it's moved to codeberg. I've updated my original post. Lots of projects moving off of github recently, because Microsoft. In my experience crinklyfly is very active in maintaining the repo, so hopefully this will continue on codeberg.