Popular application that only windows 10 can run

[adib]

I wont go on about this anymore, but the issue for me is this :

Apps I use in MacOS are not as good as the exact same version in Windows. If they haven’t bothered to make a great app whilst Apple was on Intel, why are they going to bother to work harder for Apple Silicon Macs?
Everytime I have mentioned this it gets dismissed.

However, I am talking apps such as Autocad, Rhino, Fusion 360, Twinmotion [which is unreal so I think that may go also]. It has taken a long time for the mac to be able to have these apps otherwise I would have been on a PC years ago.

It is irrelevant how good AS is and how fast metal is. If these companies don’t make the transition, there will be nothing left for me to justify Apple computer use in my business, and at present it is very tenuous as it is.

All the above apps are running very well on my PC. Revit, 3DS Max and Solidworks are also great, very popular apps that dont run on a mac at all.

I 100% believe cloud computing will be the saviour to all this and shouldn’t be too far away, to allow us to run these apps fluidly, remotely. Then I will be mac for life, rather than straddling the 2 systems.

If _all_ of your apps run remotely, there is little point to have a powerful computer. A browser would be all that you need, with browser-based remote desktop solutions. I.e. Chromebook (and maybe Chromedesk).

 

[Waragainstsleep]

If an App is running on Windows for ARM, does that make it easier to port to Mac than it would be from x86?

 

[Yebubbleman]

Pretty much most business software in legal, accounting, and banking industries. Also like 80% of PC games. (People love to throw the whole "don't buy a Mac if you want to game" argument around; but there was a time from 2009 to 2013 where most PC games made it to Mac. Now, thanks to Catalina, that number is near zero.)

 

[ChrisA]

The big thing I want to use is SOLIDWORKS. It is by far the industry standard 3d CAD system.

 

[ChrisA]

If an App is running on Windows for ARM, does that make it easier to port to Mac than it would be from x86?

Not at all. In most cases, the huge change is moving from Windows to Mac. The target CPU type only matters if you have some computational stuff that is hand optimized but Apple Silicone hardware is so different from ARM based PC hardware that you'd have to re-think how you get the best performance.

 

[dogslobber]

WSL
Windows Terminal
Hyper-V
Virtual Box

 

[Ethosik]

Visual Studio for native Windows application development.

While I hate the way Visual Studio for Mac works, and I can't get ReSharper on it, I hope development cross platform definitely changes with .NET 5 and 6.

However, until they up the design of Visual Studio for Mac, I will always prefer Visual Studio Professional on Windows.

 

[jinnyman]

MS Office. Really.
Mac OS can't handle a big excel file that well.
And also foreign language support and compatibility issue that comes with Mac OS Version pretty much force those with heavy office workload to choose Windows only.

 

[richinaus]

The big thing I want to use is SOLIDWORKS. It is by far the industry standard 3d CAD system.

add , for product design.
I reckon Revit has more users but could be wrong.

Was on fusion on my Mac yesterday and was an average experience in comparison to all week in windows.

it makes me sad really, as simply forced to use a pc, and it will only get worse in the short term (2-3 years at least).