I'm not the one saying Adobe should release Photoshop for Linux. I'm just saying the *only* reason why Photoshop isn't available for Linux is because Adobe doesn't want it to be on Linux. That may well be the result of some business calculation, or politics, or something personal or whatever, but certainly not because Linux is in some way not suitable for running an application like Photoshop.
Yet we have interstate roads and the internet, just like we have threaded shader compilation on Linux now.
If someone wants to create a feature for Linux, one can. That is the freedom Linux provides. If nobody is willing to take on something, then apparently it isn't such an issue.
I really don't get why people are giving Linux so much hate for empowering it's user base in this way. If you have a complaint about Windows or Mac OS X, Microsoft and Apple tell you to go fuck yourself. But if you want Linux to have something it doesn't have already, you can just go ahead and build it.
Because linux isn't a cohesive platform. That's the problem. As I was googling around one of the staff at adobe mentioned last year that Linux lacked standardized APIs on a forum thread regarding photoshop on Linux.
So how come Autodesk is able to ship Maya for Linux? Or MathWorks has no trouble releasing Matlab for Linux?
You're talking like it's impossible to create software for Linux. Clearly this is not the case, as there are numerous applications available for Linux and have been for years, in all sorts of forms and business models.
The lack of Photoshop and MS Office is not really because of any technical reason. The reality is that Adobe and Microsoft don't want their products available on Linux.
I think the lack of these applications on Linux has a lot more to do with politics and business strategy than Linux being a bad platform somehow for developing applications like Excel or Photoshop for.
It's not that these applications have some intrinsic connection with Windows either, as both of these products are available for Mac OS X.
And that's just the desktop. On phones, OpenGL wins all. On tablets, OpenGL wins all. On consoles, DirectX is only relevant for the Xbox, the rest runs OpenGL.
The sphere of influence Microsoft has on the computing industry as a whole has been shrinking with each passing year for at least a decade now. The diminishing relevance of DirectX is yet another proof of this.
I doubt people are using Windows because of the deferred and threaded GLSL shader compilation. I think it has more to do with the fact games are barely available for Linux at all. And that also has little do with how shaders are precompiled I think.
This feature just shaves off a few seconds during load time. That's great of course, but by no means a killer feature that previously has been a real problem for anyone. That's why the feature is late to the party and it is a gaming company who comes up with the patch, as they want their games to load faster. Makes sense, right? In no way I see how this makes Linux look bad.
A kernel isn't an operating system though. I would understand the NT kernel being used in an ATM. But the full blown desktop version of Windows XP? For a dedicated single purpose device? It just doesn't make any sense.
Here's a source that says 6 out of every 10 ATMs is running a version of XP of which support will end coming April: http://www.computerworld.com/s...
In the UK, at least the nation's top 5 banks are paying Microsoft extra fees in order to keep supporting their soon-to-be-obsolete ATMs: http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...
This wouldn't be happening if the machines in question would be running the embedded version of XP, now would it?
It isn't Embedded. Support is being dropped. Why else are UK banks paying Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars to keep supporting XP for a little while longer?
No. The ATMs in question are running XP Pro, not Embedded. The same thing is happening in the UK, where banks are paying Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars for extended support contracts (link), just to keep releasing patches every now and then. This wouldn't be the case if the machines were on XP Embedded.
The very existence of SASS and LESS prove CSS needs to be fixed. Introducing variables in CSS is one step in the right direction of making SASS/LESS obsolete.
The basic premise, that it is an anomaly for us to come together into a common social space, is so ridiculous that I have to wonder what her agenda is for making such a blatantly false claim.
People came together from their community to the marketplace to socialize. People came together at church every single Sunday.
You don't get it. The point is that the entire world didn't come together at the same marketplace, or the same church building, or live in the same city for that matter. It's unnatural for humans to all be in the same spot to socialize, we rather split up in groups of manageable size. That's the premise of the author. Now whether that's true or false remains to be seen, but at least understand the point the article is trying to make.
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I'm not the one saying Adobe should release Photoshop for Linux. I'm just saying the *only* reason why Photoshop isn't available for Linux is because Adobe doesn't want it to be on Linux. That may well be the result of some business calculation, or politics, or something personal or whatever, but certainly not because Linux is in some way not suitable for running an application like Photoshop.
I'm just saying if people want Photoshop on Linux, you should talk to Adobe, not Linus Torvalds or Mark Shuttleworth.
Yet we have interstate roads and the internet, just like we have threaded shader compilation on Linux now.
If someone wants to create a feature for Linux, one can. That is the freedom Linux provides. If nobody is willing to take on something, then apparently it isn't such an issue.
I really don't get why people are giving Linux so much hate for empowering it's user base in this way. If you have a complaint about Windows or Mac OS X, Microsoft and Apple tell you to go fuck yourself. But if you want Linux to have something it doesn't have already, you can just go ahead and build it.
I think that's cool.
Because linux isn't a cohesive platform. That's the problem. As I was googling around one of the staff at adobe mentioned last year that Linux lacked standardized APIs on a forum thread regarding photoshop on Linux.
So how come Autodesk is able to ship Maya for Linux? Or MathWorks has no trouble releasing Matlab for Linux?
You're talking like it's impossible to create software for Linux. Clearly this is not the case, as there are numerous applications available for Linux and have been for years, in all sorts of forms and business models.
The lack of Photoshop and MS Office is not really because of any technical reason. The reality is that Adobe and Microsoft don't want their products available on Linux.
I think the lack of these applications on Linux has a lot more to do with politics and business strategy than Linux being a bad platform somehow for developing applications like Excel or Photoshop for.
It's not that these applications have some intrinsic connection with Windows either, as both of these products are available for Mac OS X.
I meant precompiling in the sense of compiling them during loading, so they can be used during gameplay.
So hurray to Valve for fixing this and hurray to Linux for letting them, right?
And that's just the desktop. On phones, OpenGL wins all. On tablets, OpenGL wins all. On consoles, DirectX is only relevant for the Xbox, the rest runs OpenGL.
The sphere of influence Microsoft has on the computing industry as a whole has been shrinking with each passing year for at least a decade now. The diminishing relevance of DirectX is yet another proof of this.
How is it Linux fault that Microsoft doesn't provide Office or Adobe doesn't provide Photoshop for it?
I doubt people are using Windows because of the deferred and threaded GLSL shader compilation. I think it has more to do with the fact games are barely available for Linux at all. And that also has little do with how shaders are precompiled I think.
This feature just shaves off a few seconds during load time. That's great of course, but by no means a killer feature that previously has been a real problem for anyone. That's why the feature is late to the party and it is a gaming company who comes up with the patch, as they want their games to load faster. Makes sense, right? In no way I see how this makes Linux look bad.
If nobody is willing to develop a certain feature, then maybe there isn't a real demand for it.
So Linux sucks because anyone can improve it in the areas where they feel it is needed? Yeah, that does suck. Booo, Linux.
So sad we still don't have 4K square screens available for the general public. Everything else has exploded, but pixels are still lacking.
Because who in the world has ever heard of OpenSSH, right?
A kernel isn't an operating system though. I would understand the NT kernel being used in an ATM. But the full blown desktop version of Windows XP? For a dedicated single purpose device? It just doesn't make any sense.
Here's a source that says 6 out of every 10 ATMs is running a version of XP of which support will end coming April: http://www.computerworld.com/s...
In the UK, at least the nation's top 5 banks are paying Microsoft extra fees in order to keep supporting their soon-to-be-obsolete ATMs: http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...
This wouldn't be happening if the machines in question would be running the embedded version of XP, now would it?
It isn't Embedded. Support is being dropped. Why else are UK banks paying Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars to keep supporting XP for a little while longer?
No. The ATMs in question are running XP Pro, not Embedded. The same thing is happening in the UK, where banks are paying Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars for extended support contracts (link), just to keep releasing patches every now and then. This wouldn't be the case if the machines were on XP Embedded.
No, it isn't. Support for XP Embedded isn't dropped coming April.
Just in time to make DX12 available only for Windows 9 then :-P
What's a desktop operating system doing on an ATM anyway?
And the result is that DX9 games are still being released, even today.
Mozilla has a page on how to use CSS variables here: https://developer.mozilla.org/...
The very existence of SASS and LESS prove CSS needs to be fixed. Introducing variables in CSS is one step in the right direction of making SASS/LESS obsolete.
The basic premise, that it is an anomaly for us to come together into a common social space, is so ridiculous that I have to wonder what her agenda is for making such a blatantly false claim.
People came together from their community to the marketplace to socialize. People came together at church every single Sunday.
You don't get it. The point is that the entire world didn't come together at the same marketplace, or the same church building, or live in the same city for that matter. It's unnatural for humans to all be in the same spot to socialize, we rather split up in groups of manageable size. That's the premise of the author. Now whether that's true or false remains to be seen, but at least understand the point the article is trying to make.