{"id":9413,"date":"2026-02-22T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/?echo_kb_faq=is-there-a-version-of-an-sof-for-linux"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:53:56","slug":"is-there-a-version-of-an-sof-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"echo_kb_faq","link":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/?echo_kb_faq=is-there-a-version-of-an-sof-for-linux","title":{"rendered":"Is there a version of AN-SOF for Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No. The natively supported operating system is Microsoft Windows, and we do not have plans to release a Linux version. However, many of our users successfully run AN-SOF on Linux using compatibility layers or virtualization software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commonly used solutions include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Wine or CrossOver Linux:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These allow many Windows applications to run directly on Linux.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>VMware Workstation or VirtualBox:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> These tools allow you to run a full Windows virtual machine within your Linux environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We recommend using the AN-SOF Trial version to verify performance on your specific Linux distribution and configuration before purchasing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. The natively supported operating system is Microsoft Windows, and we do not have plans to release a Linux version. However, many of our users successfully run AN-SOF on Linux using compatibility layers or virtualization software. Commonly used solutions include: Wine or CrossOver Linux: These allow many Windows applications to run directly on Linux. VMware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"echo_kb_faq_category":[109],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/echo_kb_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq\/9413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20908,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq\/9413\/revisions\/20908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"echo_kb_faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antennasimulator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/echo_kb_faq_category?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}