Ok, I assume that Linux version of Rhino is at the very least VERY unlikely. But as I’m getting increasingly fed up with Windows has anyone got successes running Rhino via Wine for example ?

I can confirm the WinBoat approach works for me, and performance is beyond expectations. I’m running Rhino 8 (latest version) with Grasshopper on a virtual machine (Win 10) with only 4GB ram for the VM and 2 CPU cores, using a pretty old Intel laptop with only the integrated GPU. Grasshopper is re…

Thanks for this! Some combination of recent updates and probably changing too many things under the hood to try to force Rhino 8 into working broke my Rhino 7 via Wine installation. So I’m excited to see how a virtualized version without a full VM works. I still have that as a backup, but this could…

do you have an image of the reasonably complex project? and file size, grasshopper component count, rhino object count

Hi all, I can confirm that winboat works great to run a VM’d instance of Rhino on a Linux machine if wine won’t work or you need V8. I’m looking forward to getting wine Rhino back up and running, even if it’s still V7. But this at least keeps me from having to dual-boot msft to get a functional Rhin…

I tried installing Rhino 8 on M2 Max with Asahi Linux. Install was successful fhrough Proton (Steam), but unfortunately running Rhino stops at the start with a sad “Module not found” error message box. Unfortunately there isnt an aarch64 build to test winboat on it.

[image] duanemclemore: Has anyone else had a regression in functionality on new versions of wine? I’m on 10.17 staging… It starts fine, what functionality doesn’t work? [image]

[image] jesterking: I tried installing Rhino 8 on M2 Max with Asahi Linux I don’t think anyone got Rhino 8 running on wine yet

[image] wxmt57iv: I don’t think anyone got Rhino 8 running on wine yet I know, but I wanted to try the Steam approach, to see if it runs in Proton (Experimental). I probably should try it still with the x64 desktop instead of the M2 Max laptop. Reason I tried it this way is that Winboat doesn…

oh i see, yes getting it to run on mac introduces a lot more challenges :sweat_smile:

Good to hear. The program starts again, now I’m just up against black viewports again something I’ve solved before. I’ll update when it’s properly fixed. It never stopped working on the other wine / Rhino 7 machine, but I didn’t foolishly try to get 8 going on that and wreck everything.

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It starts fine, what functionality doesn’t work?

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