You can use pihole for example
My banking software is available on Mac too(with lot of problems) but not on Linux
Autosketch make 2017 (free) is available on Mac too but not on Linux
And there were 4 or 5 others, I don’t remember at the moment because I’m sitting here with my MBAir
and like I said …personal decision and being happy with it
You can minimise (but not eliminate) the amount to telemetry that MS get from your Win 10 / 11 machines by using O&O’s Shutup10++ software:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
The price is right too, it’s free.
Since Apple and Microsoft virtually share the market for desktop operating systems, they have a monopoly position and can dictate prices, rules and strategies. A third, but smaller variant is Linux, for example. If there were enough Linux users, DxO would certainly consider developing and releasing a Linux variant of Photolab.
Good choice.
I fear, you are right.
I am talking about win365. For sure, currently are business companies in scope. Rumours are saying next will be private users. Because of this I decided to migrate all my applications smooth to open source. Most of them are running at least in wine, unfortunately DxO is not. This is why I’m asking.
Nothing runs well on Wine.
I’ve got SketchUp going and it complained a lot. A virtual machine on it’s own won’t do it as most of the software we use looks for a GPU.
I’m running QEMU with pass-through via a second graphics card and using 2 different connection on the monitor to flip over. QEMU on Wayland is absolutely useless as far as I can see.
“Linux still only has 2.7% of market share, as opposed to macOS rising to around 19% and Windows falling to around 62%.”
Many people write very complex software that uses interfaces and code bases that are universal and build software to comply for multiple OSes.
Oddly enough the software made to run on all 3 platforms is generally better software. It’s being tested 3 ways X x unique machines.
That 3% could become 15% overnight. Flipping between the Windows and Linux install, I can tell you I feel “interfered with” by Windows. It seems designed to distract.
It’s not just the 3% but who that 3% is. Most of then are engaged in bug reporting across the whole platform. You complain in Windows and Mac land and it is like talking to the hand. On Linux issues are reported continuously and acted on, mostly. Maybe a small user base but they been well trained in bug reporting.
I think you do Linux as a developer for the same reasons you do it as a user. It’s about computer professionalism as opposed to consumer profit raking. It’s a developer decision and not one for marketing or finance. It pushes the developers to write software that is more coded and less library driven.
Imagining that Microsoft are not concerned about Linux is to not understand Microsoft. It’s not some crap thing Linux and it keeps getting better. And the choices are driven by what people care about and not selling you stuff. That causes a drift in a different direction over time.
Look at how Microsoft has reacted… they have put Linux inside Windows, they did that with Java and killed Sun and Netscape, the Microsoft rub up; they put out a game console then bought out most of the major game developers, they are freaking out over SteamDeck…
I think the professional market is going to skip into Linux and Microsoft will get consumers.
It’s taken me a few weeks to get to having SketchUp running. And there are issues. A Linux flatpak of the software i run on Windows would have saved me 12 days.
The problem with my approach was that it started at the lowest point and worked my way up.
Wine – bad
Bottles – bad
QEMU – horrible and particularly horrible on Wayland
I got QEMU going pretty ok under X11 then installing SketchUp is refused because of the “lack” of GPU support.
Graphics Card Pass-through – messy with lots of opportunities to make mistakes. That’s the only way that works for the sort of software we are using. Skip the rest, if you are going to have a serious go at this then just to that solution. Everything else felt extremely 286!
I think the issue with the virtual machine QEMU (running Windows) is lack of development for years because it worked. But it doesn’t work with Wayland.
If you were just running Linux and Linux software then it pretty much beats Windows. A better look with less fuss, runs on bigger and smaller computers, is solid as a rock, and the fact that Linux is a bit complicated keeps the riff raff out. 
Ah, that’s the missing link.
I use neither W365 nor Office 365…as long as possible.
best regards
Which is where macOS wins because it includes Apple’s equivalents of Pages, Numbers and Keynote, all for free, constantly updated and compatible with MS offerings.
In fact, you get a whole bunch of apps, all for free…
… along with constant updates to the operating system, including major versions, all for free.
Hi Joanna,
I’ve tried Pages and numbers…but we are not compatible 
At the moment from time to time I test Libre Office on Mac
But on Windows I’m still in love with Office 2019 where I got the license for 70 Euro.
And I will not become a uncritical Mac user 
(just a joke…sit down)
Enjoy the week
Guenter
The “old” pages and numbers were also different from Office and far easier to use, also only partly compatible, but much better than the versions you get today - these are the “gameboy”-versions of once great-to-use apps, just to make them available on iPad and iPhone.
And @Joanna although you’re right, the apps are included in the OS package - but collaboration with Office can be a nightmare or simply impossible, depending on which functions are needed.
I know from hearsay, Microsoft Office for Mac is (or was, it’s been a while since I heard that) better, more stable and easier to use than Office for Windows. And that information was before Office 365 started to waste endless working hours because it’s a rather bad package.
On what do you base that allegation? I used Excel and Word daily in my job for close to 25 years, from when they were stand alone applications / before they were part of MS Officeright up to them being part of the current MS 365 branding. The templates and VBA automation therein that I created were core data processing tools in a multi-million pound global operation. Based on that experience I utterly refute the idea they are a “rather bad package”.
You can refute (I guess, “refuse” was the idea? Or “reject”? Doesn’t matter…) whatever you like. If I had to work daily (= much more than already) with that Office 365 crap including Sharepoint, OneDrive and Teams I would look for another job. And the value of a “global operation” is by no means any indicator for the quality of the involved software.
I’m sorry but I agree with @JoJu here. If you have only used the MS stuff, you can never appreciate just how much easier Apple’s products are to get to know and use.
I once had a client who had two of his Windows computers whose motherboards both decided to collapse at about the same time. I used to go into his company around once a week to repair and resuscitate them, give them a cup of lemon tea and mop their brows (or was that the people who were struggling with them?).
Anyway, I had recently moved to macOS myself and suggested that it might be an opportune time for him to make the move. He agreed and I setup the whole office with iMacs and MacBook Pros, iPads, iPhones, etc.
Apart from odd calls in the first few months to get them up to speed or configure something, I haven’t earned anything from working for him. To quote the Apple slogan of the time, “it just works”.
And very often it works the way a user is expecting it to work. After 14 years Windows and that stupid text processor they called word and a lot more Windows-like apps, I first needed to re-learn “think simple” when I started to de-clutter my private life and use Mac. That was 15 years ago.
Some important thing which always gets forgotten in “processor comparisons”: What’s the point in having a faster processor on a Windows machine if I need four times longer to set up the app for the task? To crawl through endless preference lists, driver registers, registry entries?
I’m fine with Windows if my employer can afford the luxury to pay me for all inefficiencies I’m forced to work with due to horrible performance of Azure cloud, to disappearing files in OneDrive, to Outlook in slowmo-mode or Teams without any backup of the boards. But at home I don’t want to waste time for weak systems.
That question remained unreplied: I do base it on daily use of MS products since 1991 and private use of Mac OS since 2005. Contrary to you, I DO know the differences 
Android or iOS support is much more important than Linux.
Says who, except you? Make a poll if you dare But actually you’re right, a lot things are more imprtant than DxO supporting Linux. 
I’ve read that in several posts inside and outside of this forum, too!