This made me curious, so I checked some statistics. Which, when countered with actual facts pertinent to the discussion (ie desktop, not server, use): ![]() What's typically typical is the initial assertion by the thread-starter:Įveryone knows that the Linux platform is one of the most used on the planet It comes up on the LightRoom forums regularly too. There has been a very, very long-running thread on the Affinity Photo forum along the same lines - and despite the number of times it is pointed out that the numbers just don't add up in terms of the business case for a Linux Affinity Photo - The Faithful simply will not take a telling, instead providing innumerable vague (and utterly unevidenced, of course) assurances that - to quote the movie - " if you build it, they will come." (I see Jim MSP has made similar observations and come to similar conclusions about the potential market mix.) Given all of their resources, what stopped them developing a Linux version of all of their products? Such a consideration, especially if software on Linux might be used to leverage more hardware box sales, could be a key decision point.Īdobe, so far as I am aware, manufacture no hardware and, again so far as I know, offer no end user applications that run on native Linux.Īs we all know, they have a large share of the market we are talking about. I guess that depends on the customer mix (mostly the larger customers who may see some other benefits from abandoning Mac and Windows licences for Linux platforms that they may have (in technical terms) in house already.Ĭan you be sure that the Resolve software for Linux is self supporting, commercially, outside the broader sale of the rest of their products? Hardware sales are likely to be a much larger part of the business than the software (I suspect - not yet tried to check). Personally, I am not aware of or do I see a new user segment for Capture One on Linux. They see Linux as being used in a separate segment. But when I look at their web site for Resolve I see " DaVinci Resolve runs on all major platforms so you can use it at home or in a post facility on a Mac, at a broadcast facility running Windows, or a VFX studio on Linux. Why shoulnd't PhaseOne be able to follow that same route? ![]() Just look at DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagicdesign as a proof that this is possible from both a technical as well as commercial perspective. To make the investment in converting to Linux, Phase One would have to be convinced that there is a untapped market for them that would justify the (most likely) substantial and ongoing investment. I don't know anybody that even uses Gimp (they are out there), though I have tried it. The market of photographers that I am aware of is almost 50/50 Mac/Windows (forgetting smart phones at this point). Sorry - I was thinking about the market, not one user. ![]() And I would be willing to pay for the corresponding upgrade again. I'm looking for a way to run a professional software which I paid for on Linux. I didn't ask for free software or open source nor for support of old hardware. One of the biggest complaints today from many photographers running "mature" packages like Lightroom is that they are slow on older hardware. CO would have to be modified to be able to run on the older and slower hardware, and I doubt if many users would be happy with it. But probably like a lot of Linux machines, the internal hardware is older and slower. When I had some older machines that had reached end of life with WIn 7, I converted them to Linux and to simple web browsing stations. Linux has its place, imo, but not with CO. Any resources put into a 3rd operating system will just take away from photography related development. Right now and in the foreseeable future I would rather see Capture One add/develop a real robust and fully featured DAM & Catalog that was truly state of the art. The applications will follow the same path. ![]() Linux is free & open source, and will probably always remain that way. I'd agree with most of the arguments written by SFA above. Since you are looking for opinions and not promises (users can't do that) I would cast a strong vote against Phase One investing any resources in Linux.
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