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by stavros 873 days ago
I know this is a bit of a useless comment, but doesn't only offering a Windows package prevent most people who want to use this from trying it? Horizon might be amazing, but if I can't run it on Linux, I've closed the tab.
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eqvinox 873 days ago
I think there's a misunderstanding there, Horizon EDA is available as a standard distro package; there's no "Linux package download" because there's no need for one (and creating packages as a 3rd party is a minefield.)
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stavros 873 days ago
That makes sense, though the home page should definitely link to something that says that, instead of a single downloadable Windows installer.
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atoav 873 days ago
Huh? There is a Debian package: https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.ht...

I run it both on Windows and Linux and it works fine. The only thing it does not run on (as of now) is OSX, because of some GTK-issue, but once that is resolved there is no reason why it couldn't.

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