I’ve been following this thread for some time and wanted to share my results with running Rhino in Linux. The tests were done on an older PC (i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 32GB RAM, GTX 1080) running Ubuntu 24.04.
Compatibility layer approach:
Wine: does not install (I don’t know much about configuring wine)
Steam Proton: got it to install but does not run
Crossover 26: it installs, it does not run
Virtual machine approach:
Winboat: installs, runs but there’s no graphic acceleration, no anti-aliasing, struggles even on small projects
VMWare Workstation Pro (it appears to be free now, and has some special 3d drivers):
-Rhino 8: has problems with opengl, curves and edges don’t render, unusable
-Rhino WIP: works surprisingly well with Direct3D, even got it to load a 1.2GB pointcloud file. For small projects it’s fine, but other than that it seems to struggle.
My conclusion is, if you don’t have a second GPU for PCI passtrough, your best bet is VMware.
For me, the temporary solution is is to keep a beefy Windows machine for work, and use Sunshine/Moonlight + Tailscale to stream from my other Linux machines (home PC or laptop) when I need to get work done. With a good internet connection it works really well.
Hope this helps anyone interested, and I really hope that in the future we can, at least, get Rhino running trough something like wine, because VM performance, while usable, is still far from ideal. Cheers.