Depends on what you’re looking for, for some fields there are fantastic options already.
The others… Well considering the trajectory I’m seeing now (as a multiple decade Linux user), I think a lot more will start building for it. Maybe one flavor to start, but I do think it will be much more common.
Yeah the TwinCAT situation is absurd, pretty much like with SCADAs, wtf why would you use Windows when you need a reliable OS? Luckily Beckhoff is working on a BSD based TwinCAT IIRC, and on the SCADA side Ignition works on Linux
Much of the businesses in media already do. EG: Maya was released for Linux. Its predecessor ‘ALIAS power animator’ was a Unix based program and ran on SGI.
You’d be hard pressed to find a studio involved in fx or 3D or any function of post production not running on Linux.
Most of the progress in gaming has been due to Valve’s efforts with Proton. Running Windows versions of games in Proton is often better than the Linux native version.
They would need some kind of third party with some kind of financial interest in creating a similarly robust translation layer for business software. Like people dedicated to making wine really good for business applications.
We’ve got some tools, but my understanding is that the compatibility is very spotty… I can’t really conceive of something analogous to Valve, but for business apps, that would have a financial stake in greatly improving compatibility.
Now if only big software developers understood this and released business software for Linux…
Depends on what you’re looking for, for some fields there are fantastic options already.
The others… Well considering the trajectory I’m seeing now (as a multiple decade Linux user), I think a lot more will start building for it. Maybe one flavor to start, but I do think it will be much more common.
I’m seeing it with some of my clients already.
CAD/CAM, PLC IDEs
For me: Solidworks, TwinCAT (lol @ plc software built on top of windows…and it’s one of the more open ones)
Yeah the TwinCAT situation is absurd, pretty much like with SCADAs, wtf why would you use Windows when you need a reliable OS? Luckily Beckhoff is working on a BSD based TwinCAT IIRC, and on the SCADA side Ignition works on Linux
Much of the businesses in media already do. EG: Maya was released for Linux. Its predecessor ‘ALIAS power animator’ was a Unix based program and ran on SGI.
You’d be hard pressed to find a studio involved in fx or 3D or any function of post production not running on Linux.
Most of the progress in gaming has been due to Valve’s efforts with Proton. Running Windows versions of games in Proton is often better than the Linux native version.
They would need some kind of third party with some kind of financial interest in creating a similarly robust translation layer for business software. Like people dedicated to making wine really good for business applications.
We’ve got some tools, but my understanding is that the compatibility is very spotty… I can’t really conceive of something analogous to Valve, but for business apps, that would have a financial stake in greatly improving compatibility.