Linux Design
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- zoozoo
Linux is looking good these days, any designers on Linux?
What tools are you using?
Ubuntu?
Anybody?
- GeorgesII0
I want my fuckn rasberry pi so I can install ubuntu on a usb key and use it with my old 19" lcd,
perfect combination
- ESKEMA0
Looks like a mashup of OSX and Windows. Problem is lack of software on it... it's good for developers but not for designers...
looking good though. Nice to still see it evolve like this
- zoozoo0
And that's Ubuntu 10, they are on Ubuntu 12 already and it is more advanced.
- ukit20
I don't see the point. What's the advantage for designers?
- none at all... no Adobe support, print drivers a nightmare, etc.monospaced
- zoozoo0
That's why I created this thread, maybe there was someone... anyone out there that could show me some good design tools on linux.
It looks like a no-go for media creation.
I think may be a video editor and some high-end applications that are customized for mega-studios but I dunno.
- Nuke, Maya, Flame... there's a lot in the video world. It's good for custom drivers...zarkonite
- Continuity0
'[...] some good design tools on linux.'
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Wheeeeeee ...
- ukit20
I thought you were switching to social worker
- zoozoo0
Hi there.
I am plannin to go back to school to major in either history or marine biology and at the same time get a certificate to work with esol and autistic individuals...
I will continue to design, I will never just drop it cumpletely... it's a hobby for me apparently.
- mekk0
tried if its possible to replace all of your software with opensource a year ago.
answer: possible for web developers (recommended, too! - if you dont have to deal with assets)
possible for office too if you really want it and you´re tech savy.impossible for designers, gimp and inkscape are the tools to go for but they can never replace the ones adobe makes and they cannot output data the way you are used to do it in spite of color management and data handling. and its almost impossible to work with your exisiting indd´s, psd´s, png´s whatevers..
so short:
developers: YES!
office: when you really want it
design: NO!
- i_monk0
That doesn't have enough menu bars. There should be another one floating around in the middle, and a few that slide in from the corners, diagonally.
- jamesjohnston0
We run Flame, Smoke, Nuke and Maya on Linux.
- zoozoo0
wow Flame is still around? excellent.
nuke is for teh Red™ right?
- doesnotexist0
pff yeah, gimp. ha