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No Photoshop, no Final cut, no Adobe Premiere, no CaptureOne or Lightroom. No good color management = no Linux if you want to do something serious with photog

No Photoshop, no Final cut, no Adobe Premiere, no CaptureOne or Lightroom. No good color management = no Linux if you want to do something serious with photography or video.

ekianjo 7y ago
Not everyone is a professional photographer or video editor. Especially on HN.
- richrichardsson 7y ago
  The majority of paid for DAWs are also missing (Bitwig & Reaper only I think), then on top of that the vast majority of plugins are not built for Linux either, additionally lots of pro-spec hardware doesn't have Linux support. Of course your argument still holds true, in that most users (especially here) won't be pro-audio users, but hopefully in time the support for pro-audio users will increase on Linux, because Apple and Microsoft seem to be making the experience steadily worse.
  - Kye 7y ago
    One big blocker for me the last time I tried Linux was that I couldn't get Serum's installer to run in Wine. Helm is the closest Linux-supporting synth to Serum in usability and quality, but the gap between them is too great.
snazz 7y ago
I was blown away the last time I tried Darktable as a Lightroom replacement. I can see why you might not like GIMP instead of Photoshop (and using Blender as a video editor has a pretty big learning curve), but most of the functionality you’d need is actually there. If the proprietary media apps are a must, having a Windows VM works good (with GPU pass through if you need it), as does dual-booting with Windows or a Hackintosh system (which is actually pretty easy these days).
- GordonS 7y ago
  Ooh, I see darktable is finally available on Windows too! I'm still running an antiquated version of Lightroom I purchased something like 10 years ago - very keen to give darktable a try!
PhilippGille 7y ago
For video there's Lightworks (https://www.lwks.com/ https://www.lwks.com/), which was used for cutting Pulp Fiction and Wolf of Wall Street for example. Da Vinci Resolve (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/) is another professional video editor used for popular movies (Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2 for example). Both work on Linux.

No Photoshop, no Final cut, no Adobe Premiere, no CaptureOne or Lightroom. No good color management = no Linux if you want to do something serious with photography or video.

ekianjo 7y ago

Not everyone is a professional photographer or video editor. Especially on HN.

richrichardsson 7y ago
The majority of paid for DAWs are also missing (Bitwig & Reaper only I think), then on top of that the vast majority of plugins are not built for Linux either, additionally lots of pro-spec hardware doesn't have Linux support. Of course your argument still holds true, in that most users (especially here) won't be pro-audio users, but hopefully in time the support for pro-audio users will increase on Linux, because Apple and Microsoft seem to be making the experience steadily worse.
- Kye 7y ago
  One big blocker for me the last time I tried Linux was that I couldn't get Serum's installer to run in Wine. Helm is the closest Linux-supporting synth to Serum in usability and quality, but the gap between them is too great.

snazz 7y ago

I was blown away the last time I tried Darktable as a Lightroom replacement. I can see why you might not like GIMP instead of Photoshop (and using Blender as a video editor has a pretty big learning curve), but most of the functionality you’d need is actually there. If the proprietary media apps are a must, having a Windows VM works good (with GPU pass through if you need it), as does dual-booting with Windows or a Hackintosh system (which is actually pretty easy these days).

GordonS 7y ago
Ooh, I see darktable is finally available on Windows too! I'm still running an antiquated version of Lightroom I purchased something like 10 years ago - very keen to give darktable a try!

PhilippGille 7y ago

For video there's Lightworks (https://www.lwks.com/ https://www.lwks.com/), which was used for cutting Pulp Fiction and Wolf of Wall Street for example. Da Vinci Resolve (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/) is another professional video editor used for popular movies (Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2 for example). Both work on Linux.