Actually, Mac OS X didn't run alot of Adobe applications natively either for a long time. Recently Adobe fixed that, but before they did, guess what? It was being run by an emulator. Mac OS X is "mainstream" but doesn't have any support for some of the software that I need that linux has support for, for example Matlab. There is no real problem with mainstream applications being made for linux, infact most applications that matter (ones that don't involve pretty gui's and for graphic design) run more often than not on linux than they do on Mac OS X and even Windows in some cases (i.e. Apache Web Server.) Note that ubuntu is working on making a Graphics Suite comparable to perhaps even Adobe or Macromedia that is coming out in about 2 realeases. Check it out on google.
Actually, Mac OS X didn't
Actually, Mac OS X didn't run alot of Adobe applications natively either for a long time. Recently Adobe fixed that, but before they did, guess what? It was being run by an emulator. Mac OS X is "mainstream" but doesn't have any support for some of the software that I need that linux has support for, for example Matlab. There is no real problem with mainstream applications being made for linux, infact most applications that matter (ones that don't involve pretty gui's and for graphic design) run more often than not on linux than they do on Mac OS X and even Windows in some cases (i.e. Apache Web Server.) Note that ubuntu is working on making a Graphics Suite comparable to perhaps even Adobe or Macromedia that is coming out in about 2 realeases. Check it out on google.