Renzatic

No, there's a good reason. The developers actually spent a good amount of time improving Blender, and keep to a regular release schedule, always offering features people want, and are comparable to the competition. GIMP? Well, GIMP doesn't really do that. Their devs are planning on some nice new features, but we probably won't see them for another 4 to 6 years.

Unless things have changed recently, Gnome Boxes doesn't let you passthrough a GPU. I wouldn't use Photo or Designer in a VM that lacks that option.

Because it's cheaper to let everyone else do their work for them. It's already worked wonders for AMD.

It's possible that the unexplored potentialities of the GPL might scare away a few developers, though generally speaking, it's not much of a concern. Proprietary software isn't exactly rare on Linux, open sourced software and APIs are common on proprietary platforms, and lawsuits are pretty few and far between. If we go by history, the only time the Software Freedom Conservancy goes after someone is when they directly alter GPLed code for their own use, and release it commercially without offering up said altered code for free download on request.

Commercial software on Linux doesn't risk running afoul of the GPL. So long as no one take any open sourced code licensed under such to use in their software, the two can pretty much exist side by side.

Maybe to some people, though we'd understand.

To be faaiiiirrrhhhh, it's taking every ounce of my willpower to not post some Letterkenny up in here.

Why they can't just provide an .rpm or .flatpak is beyond me. Hell, that's what the Substance Suite does. You can install it in just two clicks.

To be fair, when they made the attempt, Linux was still fairly janky, and required a degree in computer science to install.

You want to be a showoff, huh? Well, fine then. I'll play your game! I'm on a tree kick at the moment. Shudup.

Yup. Everyone's a nerd! Want proof to back up this claim? Well, we are arguing about OSes on the internet. It's pretty self evident.

If you're worried about things not working in Wayland, then just use Xorg. It's still a few years until Wayland becomes the exclusive standard, and any app that ends up not working on it probably won't have been updated for years by that point anyway.

Is this...how it ends? Not with a bang, but with silence? The only sound being the pat-pat-patter of quiet tears we shed in the dark?

It's something of an opposite situation for me. Everything I use runs just fine in Linux, either natively, or under WINE. The only exception to this are the Affinity programs, which I dearly miss, but can work around their absence fairly easily. I continue to support the push for Serif to publish on Linux, because hey, I'd like to have my cake, and eat it too.

Yup.

Hey, better late than never.

It's popular enough to get Crystal Caves.

I can play Crystal Caves though.

The way I see things going, with Wine/Proton growing in support and compatibility, and Windows Subsystem for Linux being a thing, I see the future being fairly platform agnostic. There's no reason to fret when Windows can run Linux apps, and Linux can run Windows apps. Just pick whichever you like best. EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF LINUX!

Yeah, and I'm telling you they're all POSERS! Like those people who drop $3 grand on a Macbook Pro, and only use it to hit up Facebook and Instagram. FOR SHAME!

That's probably cuz they were all posers.

Most of the issues with Gnome were ironed out by 2015. Gnome 4 basically took that, and switched it from a vertical layout to a more standardized horizontal one. Yeah, let's not let this devolve into some internet style platform war BS, huh? Like I said, it works for me. I don't recommend Linux to everyone. If your primary concerns are 2D graphic design, it'd be better to stick with Windows and Macs, yeah. Considering I admitted to such just below, that's not much of a revelation. The Affinity programs are my one big exception.

The thing is, most of your complaints are sourced from things that haven't generally been true for 10 years now. Gnome 4 is pretty well awesome (though admittedly very Mac like), every program I use either has a native rev, or works perfectly in Wine. It never crashes, and requires very little upkeep. Hell, I barely even have to enter into the terminal anymore. The only limitation I have relative to Windows is that I don't have access to Affinity Photo and Designer outside of a VM. Yeah, you could get into the weeds over things like systemd, but that's really more hardcore dev nerds concerning themselves over what they consider best practice, and doesn't effect end users at all. Also, I'm using native proprietary Nvidia drivers.

I can't speak for everyone, but verything I use my computer for generally runs better in Linux. I'm not using it just so I can toot the FOSS horn.

If I were to do it, I'd use KVM first and foremost. I don't have much experience with virtual machines in general, having only dabbled here and there, but I hear it's the most performant of the bunch on Linux. ...though getting GPU passthrough to work does require some funky command line goodness.