While it technically works it has massive issues.

After every patch I can play 1 match. Then I get kicked because some random file has a version mismatch. From there on the game will not let me back into the lobby screen because of version mismatches.

I’ve tried deleting the proton prefix, reinstalls on various ssds and hdds, different proton versions…

And it’s definitely an Apex issue since a ton of other EAC games work just fine for me.

The only thing that actually works reliably is booting to Windows and playing it from there for me.

I love “yeet cap rn”.

Matlab exists for Linux and is the same as on Windows. LibreOffice is a fully functioning office suit for Linux.

I can’t speak to SOLIDWORKS, their website only lists a windows version. There is however some community work being done here https://github.com/cryinkfly/SOLIDWORKS-for-Linux And it looks like they have it running.

Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are listed on that github, you should probably start with either one of those.

For a complete beginner I’d recommend Ubuntu, since it’s a solid distro with huge wealth on online support available.