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Hi,
You may check the Operating System (OS) Support here link https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/programmable/support-resources/design-software/os-support.html
Thanks,
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Sheng
Yes, I have looked at it. There aren't a lot of options for desktop users... Ubuntu is really the only choice, and I don't like to use Ubuntu. Quartus Prime Lite seems to run fine on many unsupported distros, but on my distro of choice (Garuda Linux) the "Create / Update" menu and the help files fail. Fortunately the help files are nothing more than an interface to view local web pages in Firefox.
I have made another discovery... when the "Create / Update" menu doesn't work, it is entirely something wrong between Quartus and X11... because if you switch to a Wayland session, the problem goes away. It seems to me like some kind of bug or library incompatibilty which could be addressed to make it work across more Linux distros, even if they aren't officially supported. And it's definitely on the X11 desktop side because I was unable to get it to work with Distrobox containers even though the container contained Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which is supported.
For now I've got a workaround... when I need to access this menu I can switch to a Wayland session. But permanently switching is not an option for me until they fix the horrendous UI scaling in Wayland (if they ever do).
Anyway thank you again for your assistance, it helped me narrow down this weird incompatibility with X11 so I know how to get around it.