KB: Run Altium on non-Windows platform
Created: July 25, 2023 | Updated: March 08, 2024
Altium Designer
Our system requirement is caputured in our manual https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/system-requirements. While Altium Designer is validated to be run on Windows system strictly and formally, the best chance you have on Mac may be to run Windows by dual booting (Intel-based) or on top of some virtualization such as Parallels. Please consult other users running Mac/Linux in Forum at https://forum.live.altium.com/#/
Solution Details
As captured in our system requirment, Altium Designer is validated to be run on Windows 11 (64-bit only) or Windows 10 (64-bit only) strictly and formally, while there is a certain percentage of users on Mac, typically configured to run Windows by dual booting (Intel-based) or on top of some virtualization software such as Parallels. Please consult other users running Mac/Linux in Forum at https://forum.live.altium.com/#/, by searching for, say, "Parallels".For viewing only, you may be opt to share a design in A365 workspace, where the design can be viewed from any web brower on any OS platform of your choice. There is also Comment feature, where you can convey some message of a specific context in a design, which is reflected directly to be checked by your board designer running Altium Designer.