Dear Vojtech, dear Melda Team,
I would love to see native Linux support of your amazing suite.
As microsoft and apple are more and more reaching deeper and deeper into the privacy of their userbase I felt the need to finally start the process of shifting towards other options. As the new (still not 100% clear) policy of Microsoft left me in awe - I FELT the need to make a step towards a more trustworthy environment. I just feel violated by those companies scanning the content of my PC and THEN ALSO ranking/judging it/train A.i. with it - and also have the abbiltiy to shut down/lock down my PC remotly IF they feel it may violates their policy -> those terms are quite losly defined and are more than open for interpretation.
IF my PC ever gets locked down - who pays me the missed time my company was on lockdown... OR who can i speak to, to get back my companies data/content - i am the owner of it after all! With such (dystopian) terms I feel I have no other choise THAN standing up to this violation and showing my disgust BY not keep supporting them gutting my privacy with such an orwellian intend.
I need 100% control/ownership over my computer(operating system) and my+customers data. As a company I want to assure my customer that their data stays on my computer and is not scanned/stolen/spyed on BY other companies/competitors. It is crucial to me to have an operating system which main focus is to run my apps and buisness NOT an overarching A.I. spy who let me do work as THEY see as fit.
At the beginning of the year I started the process of shifting which will end in december with the purchase of a new studio-PC -> 100% Linux (hopefully). Funny enough 90%+ of my software in use for my company + hobbies are already Linux compatible. VS Code, Firefox, Thunderbird, Figma (webapp), Blender, Reaper, Bitwig, Davinci Resolve, OBS, Darktable, ToDoist, u-he, Vital, Bitwarden - are all long supported by Linux.
Unfortunatly two major players which are at the core of my buisness and hobby are not supported:
- Serif: Affinity Photo (which may seem to change soon as more and more are asking for it)
- Melda: Suite
and shifting operating system without them seem to be not a great idea![:(]( "Sad")
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Please Vojtech, please rethink the possibility of supporting Linux nativly - this would bring so much richness to the Linux-creative-sector. Maybe with recent A.I. Copilots etc. it could be managable to support it WHILE still being economicly viable - not sure how advanced the copilots are in this area![:clown:]( "Clown")
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With Microsoft and Apple who knows which A.I. is scanning our creative work and content on our machine... they say we will keep the copyright of our creations BUT do you really trust those words AFTER e.g. seeing Apple manuvering around the recent EU laws... their lawyers and influence are just too strong to try to control them. They need to train their A.I. and I guess the new microsoft policy was set in place so they can use us and our content to train their neural networks without the need to compensate us -> i feel taken advantage of... OR lets be honest: I feel gutted like a fish.
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I would love to see native Linux support of your amazing suite.
As microsoft and apple are more and more reaching deeper and deeper into the privacy of their userbase I felt the need to finally start the process of shifting towards other options. As the new (still not 100% clear) policy of Microsoft left me in awe - I FELT the need to make a step towards a more trustworthy environment. I just feel violated by those companies scanning the content of my PC and THEN ALSO ranking/judging it/train A.i. with it - and also have the abbiltiy to shut down/lock down my PC remotly IF they feel it may violates their policy -> those terms are quite losly defined and are more than open for interpretation.
IF my PC ever gets locked down - who pays me the missed time my company was on lockdown... OR who can i speak to, to get back my companies data/content - i am the owner of it after all! With such (dystopian) terms I feel I have no other choise THAN standing up to this violation and showing my disgust BY not keep supporting them gutting my privacy with such an orwellian intend.
I need 100% control/ownership over my computer(operating system) and my+customers data. As a company I want to assure my customer that their data stays on my computer and is not scanned/stolen/spyed on BY other companies/competitors. It is crucial to me to have an operating system which main focus is to run my apps and buisness NOT an overarching A.I. spy who let me do work as THEY see as fit.
At the beginning of the year I started the process of shifting which will end in december with the purchase of a new studio-PC -> 100% Linux (hopefully). Funny enough 90%+ of my software in use for my company + hobbies are already Linux compatible. VS Code, Firefox, Thunderbird, Figma (webapp), Blender, Reaper, Bitwig, Davinci Resolve, OBS, Darktable, ToDoist, u-he, Vital, Bitwarden - are all long supported by Linux.
Unfortunatly two major players which are at the core of my buisness and hobby are not supported:
- Serif: Affinity Photo (which may seem to change soon as more and more are asking for it)
- Melda: Suite
and shifting operating system without them seem to be not a great idea
.Please Vojtech, please rethink the possibility of supporting Linux nativly - this would bring so much richness to the Linux-creative-sector. Maybe with recent A.I. Copilots etc. it could be managable to support it WHILE still being economicly viable - not sure how advanced the copilots are in this area
. With Microsoft and Apple who knows which A.I. is scanning our creative work and content on our machine... they say we will keep the copyright of our creations BUT do you really trust those words AFTER e.g. seeing Apple manuvering around the recent EU laws... their lawyers and influence are just too strong to try to control them. They need to train their A.I. and I guess the new microsoft policy was set in place so they can use us and our content to train their neural networks without the need to compensate us -> i feel taken advantage of... OR lets be honest: I feel gutted like a fish.
LINUX please Statistics: Posted by operator — Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm — Replies 1 — Views 88