Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Aug 2008 16:16 UTC, submitted by jcornuz
Graphics and photography have been Apple's chasse gardee for years but for quite some time, MS Windows is on par with the Mac and the system of choice for photographers boils down to personal preferences more than anything else. But what about Linux? "My goal with this entry is to brush a big picture of where Linux stands as far as photography is concerned," Joel Cornuz explains, "What are the achievements, where improvements are needed and being worked on, and which pieces are still missing."
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When you said anything Linux offers, did you mean anything that Open Source or Free Software offers?
If so I agree to an extent. The best proprietary end user application (things like server software is different) in each category, will in many cases be better than the best Open Source. In fact I said just that. Maya still sells despite the existence of Blender and other Open Source 3D tools.
There is also however a huge pile of proprietary software in each category that is far inferior to the Open Source equivalent. Not every closed source photo editing app is Photoshop.
How exactly is it elitist to point out that there exists CAD software for Linux? Where did I say that 'we' (whoever that is) don't need something. The original poster said that there is no CAD software for Linux and I pointed out that he was mistaken.
Now there's no AutoCAD for Linux (or OS X), and I'll happily admit that AutoCAD for Linux would be great. Nowhere did I ever claim that Linux had all the CAD software it would ever need or that it didn't need AutoCAD or any other specific CAD tool. Please don't make up arguments and attribute them to me. The adoption or non-adoption of Linux by the mainstream will be totally unrelated to the (often imagined) elitism of some random people on the internet.