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Nah, actually we need to have native ports of Applications, not games. I want to see Ableton, ZBrush, DAZ|Studio ported to Linux and i know a ton of Webdesigners/Webprogrammers who would be using Linux now instead of Mac if there would have been an Photoshop port (i just don't get why they aren't using gimp instead).

Because the Gimp, in all its beauty, it has serious usability problems (too many menues, palettes, etc.) compared to the industry standard (Photoshop), which also has a UI that leaves a lot to be desired, but again, it's a "standard".
And more importantly, The Gimp only support RGB; this is probably not related to web*.* but anyways, a lot of people in the printing industry *could* be using The Gimp, but you do not send something to a printing shop using RGB.

I'm not one of the web developers you know, but I know that I, and all of the ones I know, don't use the GIMP because its user interface sucks rabid donkey's balls.

I'm sure it's very capable—possibly just as capable as Photoshop for web development (comparable layer blending effects, adjustment layers, flawless round-trip editing of CS2 and CS3-saved PSDs and PSBs), but unless the UI improves significantly all of that will be for nought.

(Also, I'm fairly sure that it doesn't have flawless round-trip editing of CS2/CS3 PSDs and PSBs, which means it's a non-starter for anything but one-man-bands).

Beyond that, every Linux distribution I've come across since 1994 when I first started using Linux has required far too much effort to tweak and tune in order to be a comfortable working environment. I don't know about where you work, but at our place there simply isn't time to spend dicking around to make it both useable and pleasant and stable. For web developers, Mac OS X is out of the box (which is handy, because if it wasn't we'd be stuck using a crappy platform of some kind in order to run the tools required).

Edited 2007-10-21 19:19

They don't use Gimp because they want Photoshop. The two are different enough that they're in no way a drop in replacement for each other.

But Photoshop works fine under Wine, so there's no excuse to not use Linux if this is the only issue.

Ableton would be really cool. I would love to see more Music apps make it to windows. Does anyone know why there isn't MINE (mine is not an emulator) a MacOSX compatibility library, one would think it would be easier to do, and there are plenty of music apps on OSX.

ditto buddy, i second that.

only wow isn't on my priority list pro evolution soccer is

i greet the UT, QW and others which are being ported as we speak