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AfterShot Pro whatever platforms it is on is no indicator of wisdom or capability.

Yes AfterShot Pro was fast but noise reduction was awful, images were soft. I’ve owned and paid for a couple of versions of AfterShot Pro post-Aperture before finding Iridient Developer and then DxO PhotoLab. Corel have botched the development and marketing of what should be one of the best and fastest RAW developers out there (and hence most popular). Started as the amazing Bibble with probably a Linux first codebase. Resolve is a point in favour of a Linux version. I do own a license to Studio which I use on Mac. I’d love to know how the Linux version is doing commercially. DaVinci Color Correction Suite was originally coded for Linux and it’s wonderful that Blackmagic Design has kept that legacy alive. DaVinci ResolveĪmazing product, fantastic that they are on Linux. How do I know? I thought seriously about buying and using it but it’s just too unreliable and cranky on Mac. The resurrection of Lightworks is a commercial failure and a weird sort of hobby project which hasn’t really managed to crossover. Let’s go through what’s left one at a time.

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Of this list, most of it is 3D and rendering software which I deliberately left off my list. Unity 3D Officially not supported but can be used ( ).On the other hand, I need to make an income for luxuries like housing, food, electricity, etc. Similarly, before I moved to Mac and iOS development, I tried to port a Windows app to Linux - once again, after a couple of weeks, it became apparent the effort required and the lack of compatibility between versions would mean an enormous amount of work, and for very little reward, as most Linux users are just not interested in paying for anything. I did once think of porting one of my iOS apps to Android, took a couple of weeks investigating it and then gave up in horror at the amount of work involved compared with the iOS version.

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Then there’s the fact that Android users are very reluctant to update their OS, unlike Apple users who are very quick to update to the latest version of iOS.

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It’s very much the same for Android development, which I won’t touch due to the enormous variety of different screen formats and sub-versions that different devices run. Which version of Linux do you want to run on - Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE… ? If you were going to invest your time, money and resources developing software for a computer platform, would you choose the one with over a billion potential customers or 15 million potential customers?Īs a software developer, I can tell you that there is no such thing as a Linux version. Most of them run Windows 1O or Windows 7. There is simply not enough profit potential.Īt this time, there are close to 1.5 billion computers in the world, old and new, that run various versions of Windows. That is also the main reason there is little paid software available on Linux from most large and small software developers. The potential number of new customers is probably not worth the significant cost and effort it would take to port a version for them, which at the same time would take resources away from the versions that are profitable. Everybody says there is really small percentage of Linux users just 1.5% but nobody thinks that 1.5% of 1 billion desktop users is 15 millions.Īnd how many of those 15 million are interested in expensive high end post-processing software, and are willing to pay for it? The audience on Linux is a small fraction of those people using a Mac, and barely a blip compared to Windows users. I can disagree of the popular opinion that Linux users do not pay for Software, we don’t pay because there is no good paid software for our beloved platform. The problem is that I’m a Linux user and can not use it. Today I did a comparison of 5-6 different products on external Windows machine using one underexposed RAW photo and DxO PhotoLab 2 was the best of all.