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> When are Adobe and Autodesk going to support Linux properly? When there will be a business case. That means, when there will be people willing to purchase Li

> When are Adobe and Autodesk going to support Linux properly? When there will be a business case. That means, when there will be people willing to purchase Linux versions of Adobe/Autodesk/whatever apps, but not their Windows or Mac versions. Normally, when people need Adobe/whatever, they will purchase also whatever OS is needed to run them - if you are getting expensive pro apps, 130 EUR/OS license (pro/oem/before VAT) is a rounding error. To Adobe this signals, that the porting effort would be a wasted effort, which they can save and earn the same revenue anyway. So it is more realistic that some competitor appears, fills that demand and grows somewhat, before established vendors notice.

mrsteveman1 8y ago
> That means, when there will be people willing to purchase Linux versions of Adobe/Autodesk/whatever apps, but not their Windows or Mac versions. I think this is becoming a real possibility. The other day I realized that all of the commercial FPGA design tools I use, from Xilinx, Altera/Intel, and Lattice, are available for Linux as well as Windows. And despite being fairly expensive if you need the versions that support larger FPGAs, they all provide a free version. Naturally they target the enterprise distributions like RHEL, and there are quirks in general and some friction to using them on other distributions, but they actually work and they're supported. Now, perhaps there's something about the people working on FPGAs that makes demand for Linux versions of those tools much higher, I don't know. But I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of installations for those tools was still mostly on Windows.