yeah im a big fan of "open source alternative".
but unfortunately, here in my country, almost all industrial related graphical design work is done and shared between business in .cdr format.
so yeah. thats what holding linux back from being used for main os for large majority of people in my country.
and theres also other things like company spesfics software that is built only for windows.
so yeah, linux is not yet ready for real world ( or my country, to be specific )
From what I’ve read you can open .cdr files in InkScape but it’s not guaranteed to look the same. If you convert to SVG prior to importing in InkScape then it should be fine.
Anyway, Linux is more than ready for the real world. The problem is proprietary and Windows only software.
no its not yet ready.
from end user's stand point, linux is not a choice for main os.
proprietary & windows only software is a problem that end user will not care about, its a term that used in dev space.
what the user know is, this or that app doesnt work (or doesnt work properly) in linux.
this or that app doesnt work (or doesnt work properly) in linux.
It’s more “is not available” than “doesnt work”.
Corel Draw not being available on Linux does not mean Linux is not production ready. It simply means Corel has not ported their suite to Linux.
Being production ready means it’s stable and can be used for, you guessed it, production work.
Plenty of 2D/3D artists are Linux users. End users (non devs) as you said.
It works for them. It works for my team. It worked for my previous team and the one before that too.
It might not be suited for Corel Draw users but that’s just because of Corel.
I’ve also introduced Ubuntu, Mint and other flavours to non dev users and they felt at home, home being Windows.
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yeah im a big fan of "open source alternative".
but unfortunately, here in my country, almost all industrial related graphical design work is done and shared between business in .cdr format.
so yeah. thats what holding linux back from being used for main os for large majority of people in my country.
and theres also other things like company spesfics software that is built only for windows.
so yeah, linux is not yet ready for real world ( or my country, to be specific )
From what I’ve read you can open .cdr files in InkScape but it’s not guaranteed to look the same. If you convert to SVG prior to importing in InkScape then it should be fine.
Anyway, Linux is more than ready for the real world. The problem is proprietary and Windows only software.
no its not yet ready.
from end user's stand point, linux is not a choice for main os.
proprietary & windows only software is a problem that end user will not care about, its a term that used in dev space.
what the user know is, this or that app doesnt work (or doesnt work properly) in linux.
It’s more “is not available” than “doesnt work”.
Corel Draw not being available on Linux does not mean Linux is not production ready. It simply means Corel has not ported their suite to Linux.
Being production ready means it’s stable and can be used for, you guessed it, production work.
Plenty of 2D/3D artists are Linux users. End users (non devs) as you said.
It works for them. It works for my team. It worked for my previous team and the one before that too.
It might not be suited for Corel Draw users but that’s just because of Corel.
I’ve also introduced Ubuntu, Mint and other flavours to non dev users and they felt at home, home being Windows.