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I work professionally as a programmer, so I agree with your overall sentiment, but I'm also very involved in film & video restoration outside of work and can st
by acuozzo 6y ago
I work professionally as a programmer, so I agree with your overall sentiment, but I'm also very involved in film & video restoration outside of work and can state with confidence that GNU/Linux is a second-class citizen in this space.
The few companies in this business that target GNU/Linux produce software that pales in comparison to offerings on Windows & Mac OS X. For instance, PFClean by The Pixel Farm barely holds a candle to DIAMANT.
Now, this obviously has nothing to do with them targeting GNU/Linux, but at the end of the day you have to use the best tools for the job at hand.
- onecommentman 6y agoIs that a temporary issue (GNU/Linux will catch up soon with new upgrades) or a permanent lag for GNU/Linux? And is there a case for “all the tools are good enough really”? Total OS agnostic here. In the early days, performance was really a “can do/no can do” sort of thing for a big chunk of the problem space. Is that still true today?
- acuozzo 6y agoI'd like to imagine that it's a temporary issue, but the problem is self-perpetuating. Film Restoration houses buy souped-up Windows & Mac OS X boxes and hire workers trained to use specific software which targets only those OSes. It would be very hard to make a good business argument to move to GNU/Linux at present which, unfortunately, disincentivizes having GNU/Linux as a target.