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> Linux support available for Studio license holders. Apparently using a free OS implies one is doing a “high-budget production” and thus demands 5x cost. Of c
by amarshall 4y ago
> Linux support available for Studio license holders.
Apparently using a free OS implies one is doing a “high-budget production” and thus demands 5x cost. Of course the “lite” version does not support Linux at all.
- wilg 4y agoThis is a limitation of our engineering bandwidth. Our Linux product is currently focused on big budget post facilities which often use Linux. There is no need to frame it as a slight, thanks.
- phren0logy 4y ago[flagged]
- moritonal 4y agoJust to counter this, I read the conversation and saw nothing dickish. It's easy to see why they might want to treat Linux differently, given the different audience it entails.
- wilg 4y agoThank you for your feedback.
- WantonQuantum 4y agoThis is an astonishing and totally unjustified ad-hominen attack. Please read the "In Comments" section of the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- phren0logy 4y agoThe reply was changed after my comment. I stand by my response to the original statement.
- dang 4y agoWe need users to stick to the rules regardless of how bad some other comment is. Please do that in the future. (I agree that misleading edits aren't good but that's a separate issue.)
- wilg 4y agoI should add we do plan to make the Indie license available for Linux this year sometime.
- amarshall 4y agoThat would be great! I meant it as less of a slight and more of a reflection of disappointment after seeing Linux headlined in the title, only to see a tiny footnote exclude it for many cases.
- reitanuki 4y agoI think the parent's point is still valid, though? It's unfortunate to assume that use of Linux implies big budget. Of course we know it has a lot of hobbyists too.
- isaacaggrey 4y ago> Our Linux product is currently focused on big budget post facilities which often use Linux. What's the value prop for a studio to run something on Linux vs Mac / Windows? This is interesting to me to hear as the trope for Linux is that it's not used for audio/video work (and couldn't find much online about real world professional usage without pulling up reviews of best video editor / etc sort of results). Also, congratulations on the release - rewrites are a huge undertaking.
- gary_0 4y agoLinux is the main OS at quite a few 2D and 3D animation studios. (I suspect because the industry started out on SGI machines running Unix.)
- girvo 4y agoMassive production houses use Linux extensively: that's who this is targeted at.