i dont know where to post this, but since windows is garbage, MacOS is terrible, when are we getting a linux version of pureraw?
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I wouldnāt hold my breath waiting if I were you.
Mark
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but why? linux is the future of computing especially now that āAIā is being shoved down your throat everywhere
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Perhaps someday, but right now Linux is being run on a tiny subset of computers which historically tends to use open source or freeware applications. There is currently not a large enough potential user base willing to spend money on DxOās expensive software. There are people here who will aggressively argue that is not the case, but the reality is that DxO would have already done it if they believed there was a large enough market to make the effort worthwhile. DxO is a small profit driven company. No profit, no product.
Mark
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Give it a rest Mark. Linux is being used by many Windows and macOS thought leaders who are fed up with telemetry, forced updates and poor performance on high quality hardware more than a year or two old.
Weāre used to paying for software.
It would be nice to see DxO get ahead of the curve for once and get some free mindshare, instead of spending most of our annual update fees on expensive and futile ads.
Someone else will get to Linux first with an excellent commercial application. DxO will have lost another market. And more importantly the free publicity.
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Alec,
Perhaps you should give it a rest. Expecting DxO to publish a version specifically for Linux anytime in the foreseeable future is like kicking a dead horse. I have absolutely no issue with them doing it if they believe there is a market for it, but the chances of that happening anytime soon is slim to none. You should know by now that it is not going to happen. Just wishing wonāt make it so.
Mark
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You do realize Linux is the future?
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That does not make any difference. DxO is a small company. For them to take the risk and re-direct their limited resources to the development of its software to a new platform, there would have to be a compelling market for that product available now, not at some time in the future!
Mark
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In the last times the forum has a long thread about DxO on linux. I suggest to check thru, and may worth to continue discussions about the topic in there (and may not open another thread)
Some latest thread:
Older thread: DXO Softwares on LINUX ! (please .....)
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the chances of that happening anytime soon is slim to none.
Are you executive director at DxO? Do you work for DxO?
If not then, perhaps you should drop the definitive statements.
At this point, you are one of the myriad Windows warriors from the 1980ās who feel some strange loyalty to the company who invented telemetry and spyware (remember how all our emails were saved in plain text in a hidden partition) and has spent their corporate lifetime stealing the ideas of small software companies to attempt to put them out of business after ādue diligenceā on āfailed salesā.
Itās so tedious. We are the past, Mark. Not the future. Linux is the future, as technology thought leaders are tired, so tired of forced updates (for many years, they are not upgrades), spyware, restriction, performance issues on excellent hardware.
Where the thought leaders go, so goes the rest of the industry with a delay or three to five years. Microsoft has dug Windows own grave. I hope PhotoLab wonāt lie in there with it.
If a many decades Mac user can face reality, I donāt know why the Windows relics still have their blinders on. Whatās particularly tedious is they have to keep raining on every parade with irrelevant and out of place comments about āfiscal responsibilityā. If it was up to that lot, weād all be still using abacuses as a cost-effective alternative to the development of first the calculator and then the personal computer.
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Youāre absolutely right Alec. Iāve turned a corner. Iām now guessing there will be an announcement of a Linux version by this time next year. Silly me to have doubts. You know best as always.
Mark
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If anyone is desperate for Linux support then I suggest you take a look at DaVinci Resolve 21.
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There is a wet blanket to rain on every parade. Happy Fatherās Day, Mark!
If anyone is desperate for Linux support then I suggest you take a look at DaVinci Resolve
Thatās a great suggestion, Keith. Iām thinking about it, but I have a lot of years of PhotoLab expertise plus PhotoLab is very capable for photo editing. Itās not easily replaced, particularly for someone who shoots a lot of high ISO (sports requires high shutter speeds, even at night; for concerts or dance, with care one can shoot much lower shutter speeds and hence much lower ISO).
The DaVinci Resolve photo launch (and on Linux) is a very good example of how another company did get a bunch of free publicity for being first and being innovative.
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Sorry if you think I am bring a wet blanket by spoiling the fantasy that DxO will even be considering a Linux version in the foreseeable future. If it does happen I will be first in line to admit I was wrong. But until then, Happy Wishing.
Mark
It would be nice if they targeted one of the windows-on-linux emulators (like WINE). Itās still be a windows version, but it might also be straightforward to get it working properly (as in āable to use the GPUā) on Linux.
As it is, European governments are doing their best to get their users off windows and off Office365 (or whatever Msoft is calling it now) as a matter of digital sovereignty - IMO as a reaction to Trump being able to cut international court personnel off from their email/address book/data by demanding Msoft (a US company) do that via his justice dept. I suspect the general population in Europe will also shift away from US-dependent software - and DxO is in France (moi, jāaime la France). So it makes sense to have a potential non-US-OS āescape hatchā. It could be a matter of picking a different set of libraries to link to.
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The entire DxO PhotoLab suite of PhotoLab Elite, Viewpoint and FilmPack would all have to be ported. The complete PhotoLab experience requires all three pieces. Getting all three pieces of the PhotoLab suite costs around $350 to $400 USD depending on available sales. A very significant number of Linux users would have to be willing to shell out that much money for DxO to make porting PhotoLab cost effective and profitable. They would have to be very confident that there would be a large enough market for their product before preceding. No market, no product.
Iām so glad I am still able to amuse Alec, @uncoy. He continues to insist that DXO should risk their very existence as a software company over a misguided assumption that itās worth potentially wrecking their business because creating a Linux version is more important than their success.
Mark
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Linux makes no sense for Photolab or DXO. For one Linux user do not want to pay for software, hard to make a business case around that. It will not happen. There is a much better business case for the iPad Pro and even that there does not seem to be movement.
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I would call the necessary process āDXO OSā.
What a tired story. Silvers business strategy 101: Keep sticking it to your aging out clientele. Increase prices, spend more on advertising, ignore new markets.