I would like to pose a question to any and every #linux desktop user! How can we encourage and promote that big companies should bring their applications to the Linux desktop?
The user base is now there for many to where it can be profitable.
#linuxcreative #linuxdesktop #yearofthelinuxdesktop #oss #computers #software #gaming #creative #videoediting #photography #app #application
@thijsvanulden This is for sure a fair point. Blackmagic though has several applications on Linux and have straight up told me that they don't offer over the phone and email support for Linux desktop. If they targeted just Ubuntu and/Fedora they would cover the vast majority of users and the users that doesn't support would be technical enough to get it to work most likely. Or even better, a LOT of applications could come to Linux via a #flatpak
@micahbp if it means for big companies to be more open- it'll take time, but it depends on the company certain companies will stay closed, but open within their own space just like how it is now. Location also makes a big difference too. As for how we can encourage 
thats a good question, that I need to ponder on.
@dipcoverlocal I'm not saying they should open source them, I'm just saying port them to Linux
@micahbp They would prefer you go cloud but if you insist they only want to code for one desktop OS called Windows.
Honestly, most things I want are supported by electron, flatpack, proton, or native binaries.
Maybe its worth flipping the script and calling out the most mainstream outliers.
Adobe, visual studio, and games with misconfigured anti-cheat are really the only 3 that come up regularly.
Beyond that, its a "long tail" of very niche tools that aren't easily usable, and even then wine/proton can chip away at the list.
Make it easy and profitable, I guess.
Compatibility layers are so good nowadays, do you even need to port the apps? Just build a flatpak with a wine/proton runtime? Won't be pretty, though.
@micahbp one way is standardization, which failed on LSB. So perhaps pushing more flatpak usage.
@helioloureiro Absolutely! 100% agree!
This is probably undesirable in the medium and long term, as it will have a negative impact on the free open source software projects that are trying to provide people with free creativity applications to the dominant alternative closed source applications.
FLOSS is not only about the platform (i.e. Linux, BSDs, whatever), but also about its application ecosystem. Because of Adobe's influence on the creativity industry (to focus on one example), the availability of Premier, Illustrator and Photoshop on Linux would make it very difficult or even impossible for the likes of Kdenlive, Inkscape or Krita to get a foothold in the market and would threaten the survival of these projects.
[End]
@micahbp I don't think it can be profitable for big companies in most cases. The whole development and support organization for an infinite number of distributions is probably super expensive. And good luck finding people for the Linux support role! Maybe they are willing to fire and forget a Linux containerized app when possible...