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• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends on what you’re looking for, for some fields there are fantastic options already.

  The others… Well considering the trajectory I’m seeing now (as a multiple decade Linux user), I think a lot more will start building for it. Maybe one flavor to start, but I do think it will be much more common.

  I’m seeing it with some of my clients already.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CAD/CAM, PLC IDEs

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    • lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For me: Solidworks, TwinCAT (lol @ plc software built on top of windows…and it’s one of the more open ones)

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah the TwinCAT situation is absurd, pretty much like with SCADAs, wtf why would you use Windows when you need a reliable OS? Luckily Beckhoff is working on a BSD based TwinCAT IIRC, and on the SCADA side Ignition works on Linux

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Much of the businesses in media already do. EG: Maya was released for Linux. Its predecessor ‘ALIAS power animator’ was a Unix based program and ran on SGI.

  You’d be hard pressed to find a studio involved in fx or 3D or any function of post production not running on Linux.

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