23. You can't run Adobe applications, (and therefore macromedia applications either). Or pretty much all major commercial software, 98% of it.
Before Linux on the desktop will ever be mainstream (as in greater than 1%), the linux community will need to learn to accept commercial software running in linux.
Presently there is an anti-commercial attitude in the linux community which is an overreaction to Microsoft. Microsoft is evil, not all commercial software is. The attitude is reinforced by the (otherwise goodly and beneficial) distribution systems like yum and apt. Those systems are great at distributing open source software. They don't do so well at commercial software. This hard-codes the anti-commercial attitude.
Until major commercial software is written for linux, linux on the desktop will forever be niche. Faking it with wine and vmware is just that.
Presently, getting Adobe's support would be the most significant thing for linux on the desktop.
And btw, because I know some of you will, don't forget that Adobe sells other apps besides Photoshop.
23. You can't run Adobe
23. You can't run Adobe applications, (and therefore macromedia applications either). Or pretty much all major commercial software, 98% of it.
Before Linux on the desktop will ever be mainstream (as in greater than 1%), the linux community will need to learn to accept commercial software running in linux.
Presently there is an anti-commercial attitude in the linux community which is an overreaction to Microsoft. Microsoft is evil, not all commercial software is. The attitude is reinforced by the (otherwise goodly and beneficial) distribution systems like yum and apt. Those systems are great at distributing open source software. They don't do so well at commercial software. This hard-codes the anti-commercial attitude.
Until major commercial software is written for linux, linux on the desktop will forever be niche. Faking it with wine and vmware is just that.
Presently, getting Adobe's support would be the most significant thing for linux on the desktop.
And btw, because I know some of you will, don't forget that Adobe sells other apps besides Photoshop.