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Honored ContributorGalfonz,
I see you're a Windows user. It shows in your response. So let me clarify a few points. 1. There are not many "linux distributions" as it appear. There is basically two major distributions - redhat and debian - and pretty much all others are just versions of them. 2. Even if they are different distributions, they are fully interoperable. I can compile my software on Ubuntu 15.10 (latest) and run it on RHEL 6.1 with no problems, provided I ship the dependencies, which Altera does with Quartus, shipping QT4 etc. (see that libQtCore.so.4 is shipped in $QUARTUS/linux64). So if someone throws "we do not support Ubuntu" they are clearly showing their lack of basic knowledge not only on Linux in general but also Redhat, which is supported. 3. You are overstating the windows share of Altera users. I think it is the other way around - more Linux users than Windows. In some areas as networking and finance, 100% of the users are Linux. I would like to hear an official number from Altera on this though. 4. Software crash on purpose - actually looking at the exception, it looks like quartus updated a widget on Qt4 with some invalid data ( perhaps a null pointer? ) and then Qt4 threw a qFatal() because it was so serious it could not be recovered from. Let's wait for Altera to come back with the solution. My hunch is that this is an issue that affects all users Windows and Linux alike. I'm seeing in the logs that this exception has been thrown from Altera's code so it is very likely it's some logic error while handling previous version's license entries.
