Comment by SanjayMehta
3 days ago
Some tools go out of their way to whine piteously if they can't find Ubuntu in /etc/issue et al. We were using Mint, just got tired of messing with installation scripts every time an upgrade came. And as the transition to Linux accelerates, it's just more convenient to stick with whatever the vendor wants.
> tools go out of their way to whine piteously if they can't find Ubuntu in /etc/issue et al
If those tools are open source, fix them. If they're not open source, don't use them. Problem solved.
It's not hard to write an installation script.
AFAIK most professional CAD tools, or the GUIs anyway, are Windows only.
Some of the previously *nix friendly ones (ie Siemens NX) have even moved to only being available for Windows.
These are proprietary tools, the install scripts are editable shell scripts but we don't want to mess with them any more.
Never happened to me. But editing files to make them happy, or putting them in a chroot or container is quite easy these days.