rafael dos santos
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8 minutes ago, wonderings said:
already 2 large Linux threads as well as smaller ones for people who seem to miss them. I would suggest you go to one of the 2 big ones and post.
And there is no prejudice, they are a free company can do as you like. The Linux community is not owed anything. It may be bad for Affinity or just fine for them. It is their call, they are in it to make money so they can continue to create software that people will want to use to in turn make more money.
yes, the company is free to do whatever it wants, only that it has the potential to grow more and win more customers.
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I see that Affinity has a very strong resistance to launch a version for linux.
In hollywood more linux is used than windows and I believe that it can make many users who already use windows and want to change their systems go to linux.
The company is in doubt if it will recover the money or not and I think so, if it was not worth launching Linux software to Editshare and Black Magic would not launch its video editors for linux.
I see a lot of excuses for not launching your software for linux, I think you should review it, because it sounds prejudiced
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On 9/29/2014 at 4:17 PM, Andy Somerfield said:
Hi,
Affinity is about, amongst other things, the "experience" of designing things.. 60fps, fluid navigation and editing of documents is at the heart of what we do.
WINE is a wonderful project, but I don't think it would work for Affinity - performance is close to native, but support for things like our use of OpenGL / input interaction would take some work. It also assumes a Windows build to map onto WINE libs - which we don't have. You have more chance of convincing us to make a native Linux version than a WINE one..
I won't rule out making a Linux version of Affinity, but I need someone to show me a combination of distro, desktop topology and deployment (paid) platform where we would recoup our development costs. If someone can show me that, I'll be willing to talk some more about it all..
Hope this helps,
AndyS
you could ask Editshare developer of Lightworks and Black & Magic that has editing software for linux, I think they would not spend resources for now developing for linux
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16 minutes ago, justajeffy said:
Uggh. Seriously, I'm so sick and tired of hearing the "small user base" argument. It's so frustrating. The small VFX company I work for has in the past 4-5 years spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars on Linux software. Almost entirely pro graphics related. (eg Autodesk Maya, Foundry Nuke, and more...)
We may be a small user base, but we are BIG SPENDERS.
exactly, according to the developers of the video editor Lightworks, linux is much more used in hollywood than windows and also black & magic would not do a version of davinci resolves for linux
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On 9/29/2014 at 4:17 PM, Andy Somerfield said:
Hi,
Affinity is about, amongst other things, the "experience" of designing things.. 60fps, fluid navigation and editing of documents is at the heart of what we do.
WINE is a wonderful project, but I don't think it would work for Affinity - performance is close to native, but support for things like our use of OpenGL / input interaction would take some work. It also assumes a Windows build to map onto WINE libs - which we don't have. You have more chance of convincing us to make a native Linux version than a WINE one..
I won't rule out making a Linux version of Affinity, but I need someone to show me a combination of distro, desktop topology and deployment (paid) platform where we would recoup our development costs. If someone can show me that, I'll be willing to talk some more about it all..
Hope this helps,
AndyS
why don't they do market research? is always an excuse for not bringing software version for Linux
Why should Affinity launch the Linux suite?
in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
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which rule did I break?