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Unfortunately, Linux lacks in the creative market. There's no way this can change soon without support from big players, like, for example, Adobe.

7Z7 10y ago
That depends on what kind of creative pro you are. In general I'd completely agree with you, but the major VFX vendors all run on Linux - with Nuke, Maya, Houdini, Modo, Clarisse, Mari, etc.
- natch 10y ago
  If you get lucky with your particular combination of hardware and drivers, yes this can be true for some people.
wingless 10y ago
From what I've seen it's been getting much better. Linux has very powerful tools for media creation/editing now: Blender, Krita, Darktable, Natron are some quality apps that I'm aware of.
- erikbye 10y ago
  The problem is that they still pale compared to the Windows/Mac applications.
dharma1 10y ago
I'm not sure what toolkit Adobe use but I have a feeling it's not easily portable to Linux. Inkscape and Gimp are the stalwarts, but for someone coming from Sketch or Photoshop they feel quite ancient and somewhat messy. https://www.figma.com https://www.figma.com is cross-platform (web based), and a pretty good Sketch competitor For a Lightroom replacement, Darktable is actually quite good (though I really miss the high quality shadows/highlights algorithm from ACR)
- wlesieutre 10y ago
  Check out Krita sometime as a Gimp alternative. It's geared toward digital painting a bit more, but it works for general image editing too.
  - dharma1 10y ago
    I've played around with it a bit - someone packaged Krita as a snap for Ubuntu and I wanted to test installing it. Looked good, more for painting like you say but looked powerful enough for basic image editing. I've seen people produce beautiful digital art with it
gotofritz 10y ago
I think you can forget Adobe porting all their stuff to Linux. They have a ton of different projects and teams going on at the same time, they certainly are not going to bother increasing that by 50% to support an open source platform with 1.x% market penetration.

7Z7 10y ago

That depends on what kind of creative pro you are. In general I'd completely agree with you, but the major VFX vendors all run on Linux - with Nuke, Maya, Houdini, Modo, Clarisse, Mari, etc.

natch 10y ago
If you get lucky with your particular combination of hardware and drivers, yes this can be true for some people.

wingless 10y ago

From what I've seen it's been getting much better. Linux has very powerful tools for media creation/editing now: Blender, Krita, Darktable, Natron are some quality apps that I'm aware of.

erikbye 10y ago
The problem is that they still pale compared to the Windows/Mac applications.

dharma1 10y ago

I'm not sure what toolkit Adobe use but I have a feeling it's not easily portable to Linux. Inkscape and Gimp are the stalwarts, but for someone coming from Sketch or Photoshop they feel quite ancient and somewhat messy. https://www.figma.com https://www.figma.com is cross-platform (web based), and a pretty good Sketch competitor For a Lightroom replacement, Darktable is actually quite good (though I really miss the high quality shadows/highlights algorithm from ACR)

wlesieutre 10y ago
Check out Krita sometime as a Gimp alternative. It's geared toward digital painting a bit more, but it works for general image editing too.
- dharma1 10y ago
  I've played around with it a bit - someone packaged Krita as a snap for Ubuntu and I wanted to test installing it. Looked good, more for painting like you say but looked powerful enough for basic image editing. I've seen people produce beautiful digital art with it

gotofritz 10y ago

I think you can forget Adobe porting all their stuff to Linux. They have a ton of different projects and teams going on at the same time, they certainly are not going to bother increasing that by 50% to support an open source platform with 1.x% market penetration.