I spent a couple days getting SketchUp to work under Wine (thanks elemtary OS for not allowing updates making me stuck on old version of Wine, plaOnLinux bundles some newer versions tho).
After working with Sketchup for a week, realized that some features didnt work under wine, so went to fix the windows dual boot that was destroyed when I had previously resized the partition using gparted. Fiddling with win recovery didnt work, so I needed a win boot disk.
It turns out that the win10 image includes a 4.5G file, but EFI needs the boot image to be fat32, so no files larger than 4G. That must be one of the dumbest microsoft choices, to not split up that file. Somebody online suggests to use gparted to create two partitions on the usb stick, one fat32 and one ntfs, for the boot and the install files - and the installer will automatically recognize that. Anyway, that also took a couple of hours to set up, also the fresh win10 install and setup. Head->table.
…Yes, we can waste a lot of time on computer problems.
After working with Sketchup for a week, realized that some features didnt work under wine, so went to fix the windows dual boot that was destroyed when I had previously resized the partition using gparted. Fiddling with win recovery didnt work, so I needed a win boot disk.
It turns out that the win10 image includes a 4.5G file, but EFI needs the boot image to be fat32, so no files larger than 4G. That must be one of the dumbest microsoft choices, to not split up that file. Somebody online suggests to use gparted to create two partitions on the usb stick, one fat32 and one ntfs, for the boot and the install files - and the installer will automatically recognize that. Anyway, that also took a couple of hours to set up, also the fresh win10 install and setup. Head->table.
…Yes, we can waste a lot of time on computer problems.