I had Linux Mint running lately with Firefox installed. That shouldn’t be the problem. Firefox can be installed as a native version on Linux.
I had to uninstall Linux due to setup mistakes with the boot manager but I will retry.
I mean Firefox or a different browser installed inside the wine environment, for a reason. I am not sure how this works but in my case it was relevant for licensing issues on a rhino 7 version.
A windows browser will share system wide cookies or similar data with your rhino that the linux native browser won’t.
Of course it is a browser that will be used just for this case. And for you daily use you will still have your native Linux browser.
Again. It is just a moon shot. This helped me with licensing in the past for a rhino7 version. But I don’t know if your issue is the same.
Hope it helps.
Good luck
Manuel
Hi Everybody,
I started a petition at openpetition.de
Please subscribe, so we can have an idea how many of us are interested in Rhino running natively on Linux. Please also tell your colleagues about the petition and the problems Win 10 and 11 cause. And about the petition of course.
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Usually making sure that your wine has gecko is the way to go. Aaronsb’s instructions include a specific version, which was correct for the sub-version he installed at the time. But if you’re following his instructions, don’t do it verbatim as that’s an old gecko and won’t work properly. This happened to me. Start with the most recent version, that should do it. Let us know here f it doesn’t.
If the license manager is the issue, I think that’s later in loading than my most advanced error (localization) so maybe cachy’s better for this, or they’re making progress over at wine.
Good luck - report back if you get the chance!
In the continued ens#ittification parade, Adobe has just doubled subscription costs so they could charge you to shove AI into everything.
Welcome to “Adobe Creative Cloud Pro.”
- Check your subscription to see if they’re doing it to you!
- I am canceling my subscription and moving entirely to other programs. Some of these are here. This is insane to think about - I’ve been using Photoshop since 1996.
Anyway I bring this up here as evidence that we need alternatives, and as another piece of evidence pointing to reasons people will leave the traditional platforms like Windows or Adobe.
But even if you don’t want to go full FOSS, there are solutions! My partner has agreed to leave Adobe for Affinity. Which you can now do easily on Linux.
For my purposes I can run Rhino 7 on Linux with wine. So I don’t need Windows for anything. But if someone wants the latest, greatest functionality, there is a Linux-native (or highly compatible like the appimage of Affinity) version of everything except Rhino. If there was a Linux-native version (or an easy way to run it with wine) it could be the lynchpin of Linux-”native” creative workflows for ALL KINDS of designers.
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I’m merely doing some reflection. I’m honestly having a hard time switching to linux. I finally downloaded Ubuntu over the weekend.
My colleagues and I hit a rough spot in Q4 last yr when windows played some hard games with us.
..jus reviewing some data.
I did however stumble on a new realization recently. I didn’t realize how popular it actually is.
Data on the left here similar to some already shared before, with data I stumbled on recently on the right; I’m just trying to gain some understanding as I learn more about linux.
not sure what “desktop browsers” has ta do with it.
supercomputers tho 
I’m not a fan of the “cloud”. Unless web3 magically happens idk.
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Maybe “desktop browsers” is just a stand-in for desktop computers?
Either way, when you consider the real number of computers in the world - including smartphones - or the total amount of web traffic, Linux is the MOST popular OS in usage. This also doesn’t account for Steam Deck / SteamOS users - which IIRC push Linux to the +/- 5% of total desktop OS users range.
It’s just, as Helvetosaur pointed out before, that it’s a self-reinforcing spiral. 3d and 2d designers have traditionally not used Linux, so there’s no built-in demand. So most companies don’t write software for it so … repeat. It’s frustrating though because a lot of other professional modeling programs, etc have Linux versions. This is a holdover from when they all ran SGI Irix stations, and has stayed the same since they often had Linux render farms that would have been MUCH more onerous to replace than the user machines. There is even a VFX Reference Platform to drive interoperability.
So if we could find a major studio who wants to fund porting Rhino to Linux (and support its maintenance) we’d get it (LOL). But sadly, the VFX industry / Rhino use cases are in many ways SO similar, but divergent in the outcome…
Anyone know someone who runs a VFX house who wants to add Rhino to their toolchain? (LOL again… unless…)
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I must say that ever I switched also my Macbook Pro to Linux (Asahi Linux, just recently upgraded to Fedora 43) last year I have been much more happy with the hardware. I don’t care much for OS X either, it falls in the same category as Windows for me, especially since I found out that the “AI” components couldn’t be uninstalled from it either. More than 6 months that all my computers are running Linux as main OS.
A Linux version of Rhino would be very nice indeed, I might consider getting a license then.
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Additionally the screenshot from John Brock shows some fairly old information, as the US took a very dramatic course change and many companys as well on order not to be banned from the market by that “president”. So the minds will change very soon, especially in Europe. Even the governments are forced to move away from MS for the reasons of license costs and more important data security.
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