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Discussion on: 11 Reasons I love Linux, and 1 why I don't

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Matt Rogers

Ok, on the creative apps front:

No the Adobe suite isn't available, but for video work Davinci Resolve is highly competitive (and widely considered to be superior in some areas) to the 1-2 punch of Premier and After Effects.

So if video is your thing, you're golden. Equally in animation; both Blender and Krita are regularly used in pro environments.

But sadly, I do still end up using Windows because of my specific areas of work. In photography there's nothing that is quite as good as either Lightroom/Capture1 (I've heard that Darktable has improved but it's still not quite there) and Photoshop (even though I don't use it much) is still a fair way ahead of Gimp.

I also create projection for theatre and I haven't found ANY show cue systems for Linux, let alone anything as fully featured as Isadora or Qlab.

So the problem of missing software is very case by case, but isn't that the real issue?
On Windows or Mac there will always be some software to do the thing you need... but it might not work on Linux, and you might need to find a work around.

I'd still prefer to run Linux, but don't. Which is kind of a shame.