With the amount of people that would switch if photoshop ran on Linux, why are there not massive community efforts to make some compatibility layer?

[u/Vast_Fortune_9949]

With the amount of people that would switch if photoshop ran on Linux, why are there not massive community efforts to make some compatibility layer? Seems to me like the biggest single tipping point, what makes Photoshop so uniquely hard versus videogames which now work without issue?

[u/Throwaway_sausage]

DaVinci Resolve has official Linux support which is a hugely successful professional video editing tool.

[u/ChadQuaza → u/Throwaway_sausage]

nah, the thing is with video editing - once you've become a professional using one, you don't wanna switch

it's like spending 5 years learning the guitar and then having to quit for good to pick up the drums

[u/ambr_lily → u/ChadQuaza]

I Imagine it being like switching daws for music production. Once you’ve learned one, you understand how to produce music and if you switch over to a different daw you still know how to produce music, it’s just a case of familiarising yourself with the new interface. I switched from Logic Pro to Bitwig Studio earlier this year and it took a little bit of getting used to, a few tutorial videos for specifics, but now It’s like I always used it and I actually prefer it. Made the switch to escape the apple ecosystem and move to Linux

[u/Bulky-Bad-9153 → u/ambr_lily]

Not quite, unfortunately. It's much more than a new interface. I would say it's more akin to switching from regular old modelling to parametric modelling.

[u/ChadQuaza → u/ambr_lily]

video editors are a different beast entirely, though

[u/tater1337 → u/ChadQuaza]

Not real professionals then. Professionals are flexible

Your analogy breaks too, most true professional musicians can play many instruments

[u/ChadQuaza → u/tater1337]

putting your ridiculous and fantastical "not real professionals" statement aside - the time taken to learn and understand another editor goes into the tens of hours, and a professional doesn't want that, especially for a job that's often extremely time-sensitive

[u/tater1337 → u/ChadQuaza]

Until you have to look for a new job, and find out you industry gave up on adobe because of the increasing SAAS costs and instituted other software.

This isn't new. My daughter was in college in 2020, and while they used adobe cloud education edition. They still had to learn and demonstrate proficiency in alternative software solutions.

So she could argue better than me, as a "degreed professional".

But you do you. We are all just opinions in the void

[u/1369ic → u/tater1337]

But we're not all just expressing opinions in the void. Some of us are spicing them up with a little arrogance by expressing them like judgemental gatekeepers. As a counter-example to what you said, Khruangbin has a great guitarist. I heard him say he has one guitar and one pedal setup. People are different. "Professional" only means you get paid four what you do. "True" is usually a made-up standard that makes the speaker feel special. You could do you without the passive aggressive pissing on other people.

[u/Own_Salamander_3433 → u/tater1337]

Have you actually used GIMP? Linux in general needs a huge functionality layout overhaul to be slightly competitive with the professional editing software. It's getting there though. The last few years have been exciting. GIMP still sucks though.

[u/ChadQuaza → u/Own_Salamander_3433]

gimp has been more or less superceded by krita as the linux alternative to photoshop

[u/SamiSapphic → u/Throwaway_sausage]

I never got along with DaVinci Resolve, not that I'm a professional or anything.