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14 hours agoCAD and other professional engineering software typically only runs well on Windows.
There’s exceptions like the Linux-native Blender but especially Autodesk was a bad experience (a few years ago).
That’s just a guess from my side: If you want to try Autodesk use the Windows version. Bottles makes installing wine/proton and it’s components easier. You’ll likely need DXVK for good graphics performance.
I haven’t seen anything except the safe pdfs, epub etc formats. Similarly to movies there shouldn’t be a risk to downloading malware unless you execute the files (e.g. double click).