• jackpot@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    year of the linux desktop is based on how many third party apps are there, not how many people use it imo. they correlate and impact one another but arent the same

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      10 months ago

      The equation for YotLD is simple for me:

      Adobe looks at Linux market share and thinks, “Hmm, we could make some money from this,” and ports Photoshop, After Effects, and inDesign to Linux

      Or:

      Adobe looks at ChromeOS and thinks, “Hmm, we could make some money from this,” and ports all their programs to the web except After Effects because that involves massively extending web protocols again to support all the codecs and improving performance.

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        10 months ago

        ChromeOS can run native Linux apps, so realistically if Adobe wanted to support ChromeOS they’d probably go for a Linux port anyway. A lot less work than trying to reimplement every single UI from the ground up as a web interface.

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          10 months ago

          So you’d think, but why else would Adobe bother developing a web version of Photoshop? Good to know, though.

          Obviously it defeats piracy, but that argument doesn’t make sense if Adobe is still shipping a native version of Photoshop.