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Doesn't matter in the least bit when talking about the viability.
You're barking up the wrong tree then. I don't know why you would do that when you claim to be a pragmatic person. What's exactly your beef? Care to tell me?
Beef? I called out the dumb memes around Linus because he represents a normal user. You all then scream that normal users should be more educated and care about hardware, why Nvidia sucks, etc; which is a pipe dream and never EVER going to happen.
I have no beef. This is reality.
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I really don’t give a flying fuck about software privacy or open source anything. I want my computer to work with the software I need for my job, and Linux doesn’t, so it’s a non-viable OS
Shouldn't you at least understand the reason why it is that way? Or are you going to blame Linux when there's no single entity behind it?
Microsoft struck shady deals with laptop vendors to make them microsoft exclusive. Steve Ballmer effectively said Linux is cancer (probably blaming GPL license). They let people pirate their software so future technologists grew up with windows and other windows software (adobe did the same with photoshop, now it's industry monopoly)
A community OS like GNU/Linux competes with Microsoft who has billions in the bank. It's only in the past few years that Linux has seen wider hardware vendor adoption at all.
It's fine if you think Linux is non-viable... but speak for yourself. Don't go around trolling people who are perfectly fine with Linux.
Edit: if you don't care about anything I just wrote then you're just a horse with blinders on and I am wasting my time.
It doesn’t matter why it’s that way. It matters that it is. Linux is non-viable in a lot of industries. The Linux Vegans consistently refuse to accept that FOSS alternatives are only alternatives in name. As competing products they’re almost always missing features, functionality and/or performance that the industry leader has. Ask any graphic artist about GIMP vs Photoshop and there’s a pretty clear winner, and it’s not just because of familiarity.
It's not a fair comparison when you trot out good ol photoshop. Can you find an alternative to blender? Yes you can run blender on windows too. It works flawlessly. Linux being non-viable only affects you and that shill.
It's definitely a case of you barking up the wrong tree.
Technically Maya and Cinema4d are still the industry leaders (from my understanding, there’s also likely a lot of proprietary tools used). However you’re right about Blender being a competitor now. And that has to do with the fact that it’s almost feature “complete” in comparison to its competitors.
Linux is non-viable for a whole lot of people, just based on the number of Adobe subscriptions. It’s fine for people to use windows. It’s also fine for people to not care about the bad parts about windows. The same way there is for Linux. It’s great at a lot of things, but it’s really bad at most other things. Windows just works, but there’s plenty that it takes away from the user. It’s all about how much troubleshooting you’re willing to do, and in my case that’s next to none.