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Produce Creative Suite for Linux
This isn't a new idea, but please produce Creative Suite or at least some applications at a time for the Linux OS, particularly Ubuntu which appears to be growing very fast.
This is an untapped market for Adobe and would mean absolutely explosive growth in support for Linux and Adobe software on the powerful Linux OS.
This would be a big feat, I'm not denying that, but nothing is impossible. Just think of the possibilities.
This is an untapped market for Adobe and would mean absolutely explosive growth in support for Linux and Adobe software on the powerful Linux OS.
This would be a big feat, I'm not denying that, but nothing is impossible. Just think of the possibilities.
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?I'm an active contributor to a Linux project. Yet I use Mac, I'm a designer!. Macs represent about 8% of the marketshare, but most of these are designers. That's why, and only why, you have design apps for Mac.
Linux is about 0.8% of the total market share... We are nothing =( why spending money on a less than 1% community which is used to not pay for it's products? (let's face it, we like it free!)
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Inappropriate?Regardless of the growth of Ubuntu among Linux distros, the overall percentage of "Creative Professionals" using Linux remains quite low and there's simply not a large enough market to warrant the (significant) engineering effort. They don't wave a magic wand or anything to make it happen (pun intended).
The amount of Web Developers (that is Programmers not Designers) using Linux has, however, grown enough to warrant attention from Adobe, hence Flex Builder for Linux. Creative professionals remain largely drawn to Mac, mostly for stylistic reasons, not functional ones though.2 Comments
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This is one of the best points
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Macs are not just beautiful =) they're also very easy to work with and to produce / share with other Mac users. Other systems are not so advanced yet. iChat makes things so easy, in example!!
Anyway, yeah. The most of professional Linux users surely are web developers. -
I think it's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem. There aren't many creative professional using Linux because there's no CS for Linux, and there's no CS for Linux because there aren't many creative professionals using Linux.
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Inappropriate?Honestly, nothing that Adobe produces for web development would appeal to Linux users, or even many Mac users for that matter. I don't know anyone who is a serious web developer who would even think about using a product like Dreamweaver to build a website. Don't get me wrong, they exist and their work is not to be devalued, but there is a general disdain of applications like Dreamweaver and competing Microsoft products in the industry because they generally produce crap. As these products advance, this becomes more of a stereotype than reality, but it remains that many web developer prefer granular control over their code. This is doubly so on Linux, where many Linux users are programming gurus and would prefer writing their sites in Bluefish or gedit.
I'm a Mac user and I do most of my web development in Coda, CSSEdit, and TextMate. The only thing bringing me back to Dreamweaver is the fact that on the website we're phasing out at the company I work for, we use Contribute as our CMS.
Wonder-in-a-box products like Dreamweaver don't really appeal to web development studios, which is where the Macs are. Now again, I don't claim to know the general trend of things since there are no statistics on this, but if I had to guess, most people using Dreamweaver are those who are technologically inclined, but don't have the time or resources to invest into building a perfect site. Plus, those not explicitly in the web development industry probably aren't aware of alternatives to Dreamweaver and Expression Web. If I had to guess, the majority of the copies of Dreamweaver being sold AND used are Windows licenses, since the aforementioned companies are overwhelmingly Windows-based.1 Comment Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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Ah, I don't get you wrong.
Thing is Dreamweaver stays with this old WYSIWYG concept, which is out of place now in web design. Designers use straight code. THAT's the way to do things now.
I'm on a Mac, and I use Coda for web layout and programming. No WYSIWYG... like if I'd need it!
On Linux, I tried most of them: Quanta, BlueFish, Geany (good, but lacks hundreds of key features), Eclipse...
I stay with Coda, though =P
The only thumbs up for Dw is it's integrated FTP functionality. Though it's quite slow. -
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Inappropriate?+1 for the cs suite... and I disagree with those who say that there is no market for it. I am a designer and I want to switch to linux but I CAN'T because Adobe doesn't have a linux release. It is circular logic to say there are no designers on linux so CS is useless... if designers had the tools to switch we would switch.
The irony is that is easy to get CS for free from torrent sites for windows and mac... if linux became available it would probably be harder to get since there are less linux users. The end result is that some of us might actually pay for adobe rather than download it for free if there was a linux release.1 Comment Add a comment
This is one of the best points
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But even if that's true, many designers prefer Mac because it's the best platform to work with images and typographies. If it wasn't for this, Adobe wouldn't even bother on Mac because it has only 10%, though the percentage of Mac CS users vs PC CS users definitely is bigger than 10%.
They are not a company like Google which stands for Linux. They are not making the first move: first they want customers, then they'll get interested. Linux has around 1% market share, and truth is most of them are advanced users because they were smart enough to choose between Windows and Linux. Yet that's not enough to bother I guess.
I wished CS was for linux when I used it... I managed to use older versions like CS 1 on Wine, but wasn't enough. Wine is the answer to our problems: make the apps work, people switch to linux, then you have customers, then you produce non-ports releases for Tux. I think that's the way to go, but it will take years.
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Inappropriate?The linux community is huge but yet there is only 22 ppl who like this idea here, i think that the linux users needs to come together more on this and push this question to get anny kind of feedback.
