Wow! A religous rant.
I was arguing engineering and you come back with Religion.
I susspect I have far more real experience of the security world than you and I wil leave it there.
EDIT 22 April 2022 Black Magic Design have announced a whole load of new hardware and software. Intrestingly the new systems are Windows and Mac only. It seems even BMD is starting to drop Linux. Their support for it with Resolve is only on a now obsolete distribution. So I can’t see anyone else moving to Linux.
I haven’t been able to find any reference to your claim that BMD is “dropping” Linux in any shape or form. In fact, the latest beta improvements very much include Linux. Do you have a reference for your claim?
The program Aftersot Pro is not so bad, I had bought it once too, then left it since I know darktable. With Darktable, however, the photographer must think for himself. It is not a program with a “make picture beautiful” button. But you get verry more out of the RAW.
This is the most nonsensical post in this forum!
The answer is not clever. There are also many versions of Windows, but no one comes up with the idea to support Windows 3.11.
By design, Linux is the most secure operating system. Microsoft would probably not have chosen it as a cloud system otherwise.
MacOS would be similarly secure if the support wasn’t so lame.
If users spend money on PaintShopPro, they won’t shy away from it with other software.
Of course, you can wait until such programs as PureRAW appear on the freeware market. The beginning should be done. G’Mic from version 3 relies on neural networks and with their plugins then PSP, Xnview and Gimp can be operated.
Much is a myth. Among the felt thousand geek and nerd Linux versions, only RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu have really established themselves in business. So manageable. In the multimedia area, Ubuntu-LTS is mostly favored.
Apart from that, a method exists that can be used for almost all distributions, similar to the Portable Apps in Windows, called App-Image and Flatpack.
The good Linus has also made a mistake. He probably didn’t know Mark at that time. As an admin I have been in many large companies with Linux on the desktop.
This is so wrong it is laughable. Linux is one of the least secure operating systems I know.
You only have to look at Do178C to realise that.
What SIL or DAL level has Linux been validated to or are you just blowing hot air (again)?
If these companies would work with Wine, they could get their software working pretty well in Linux. That would give them an idea of how many potential Linux users they had before they committed resources to making it run natively.
I’ve moved to Linux with KDE Plasma and it is a beautiful thing. Be wise to be ahead of the curve on this one. Davinci Resolve is out on Linux.
I’m over subscription models that have you paying for software over and over. A base price and the ability to postpone upgrades until you are ready is fine but some, not naming names, have gone nuts with subscriptions.
And GIMP is a really excellent bitmap editor with lots of things that matter like bit depth.
I’ve tried DXO in Wine and on a virtual machine, both suck!
Microsoft were so threatened by Linux that they have put it inside their OS. Same method they used to kill Netscape and Sun. I think a bit of a revolt is on the cards. Lots of interest in Europe in Linux.
I think Resolve on Linux is my tipping point. I’m using so much open source software that the ethics of running it on Microsloth is questionable.
As for Adobe or Corel versus Linux… There are other tools for graphics, VivaDesigner is a good replacement for InDesign.
It seems to me that Linux wins on 3 market segments, education, people that use a little bit of a lot of apps and those with multiple workstations.
I really have the runs over Corel charging so much for less than Adobe and doing it with a subscription model that kills the software after a year. Nothing created is such an environment has archival value.
I’m running Rocky 9.2 KDE Plamsa and deadset it is a beautiful interface. And you nothing what is and isn’t a good interface on UHD. Thing have evolved along the lines of “what is worth the human effort” and it shows in the choices. All the OS bits are SVG vector graphics, you can tune text hinting up to higher levels. It’s peaceful and professional.
Meanwhile, I load windows, feel like I’m on some version of internet fox news and get bombarded by distractions, many of which I can’t turn off.
I think the time to do it is now while Blackmagic (Resolve) is putting apps into the Linux stream. Their customers are DXO customers.
Linux still only has 2.7% of market share, as opposed to macOS rising to around 19% and Windows falling to around 62%.
There just isn’t the market to justify the enormous investment of time and money that would be required to create a new version for such a minority OS.
Good work, making the move. It’s a pity that PhotoLab doesn’t run better on Wine at least. I’m not sure if the core framework in which PhotoLab is developed offers a Linux version. If it does, then it would be possible to create a Linux version. If the core development framework is not ported to Linux, it would be like starting from scratch, which of course would not be viable.
And some professionals and companies who like their privacy. Even if more relative now.
But yes, does this investment is profitable for DxO ?
Or should they concentrate on improving their software ?
There’s short term and long term goals. To be the pre-eminent commercial RAW development tool on Linux would offer DxO a great deal of mind share and some decent medium-term prospects. The free publicity alone might pay for the project.
The practical hurdle is the framework used to develop DxO and whether a Linux version exists. Is there anyone here who can answer the single relevant question: what framework is DxO using now?
I know nothing of Linux, but one must also consider that going forward DxO would then have to support, update and upgrade three versions of their software on three different platforms on an ongoing basis.
I wonder how many small software companies are willing to develop and maintain their software on three platforms, especially if the user base on one of them is a tiny fraction of those on the other platforms.
Mark
With 3 different versions … ??? 
They can’t make 2 the same …
It’s not the question I asked, @mwsilvers. We’ve heard that argument before. I’ll try again: what development framework is DxO using now?
Windows uses its own widget set. MacOS uses its own widget set. Linux uses any one of a choice of widgets, depending on the Linux distribution.
The only way to reduce that is to use a multi-platform development environment, which tends to end up looking and feeling like none of the “true” platforms.
The only way to reduce that is to use a multi-platform development environment, which tends to end up looking and feeling like none of the “true” platforms.
Trying for third time: what development framework is DxO using now?