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[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is always brought up but it isn’t actually that relevant. The 3D modeling profession is very small, hundreds of millions of general purpose computer users have no need for Microsoft.

[–] Khotetsu@lib.lgbt 4 points 1 year ago

I was confused as well because the industry standard (Maya) natively supports Linux. Until I looked up Solidworks and realized we're talking about 2 different 3d modeling/design fields.