5th June 2018, 18:53
Ok, Fargo, You wrote something real by one side and not for another (like me).
I can tell my experience :
I'm an accountant / business consultant in Italy and for my work Linux is better every year because I use LibreOffice to write documents and working on spreadsheets, Xsane to scan documents, Google Chrome for browser, Thunderbird for emails, some Dolphin service menus to work on pdf files, Okular to read / compile pdf files, Dike (an Italian professional software) for digital signatures and it is normal to find others professional softwares for my work in the cloud version (to be honest, they are only in cloud). So, no problems with Linux; I only need a stable KDE distro that don't need a lot of work to setup it (I'm lazy.....
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I agree completely with You on the fact that the best way to have professional software in Linux is the cloud software through an internet browser, but this is also the future of Windows and Mac (all the serious software houses are going in the cloud).
It is also real that, very often, a lot of necessary softwares for work are not so expensive to create but I never see a community of users that organize them and pay a software engineer (developer, coder, etc.) to create the software they want......
At last : my daughter has passion for drawing and painting, she uses Krita in Linux and she doesn't want to see Windows.....
I can tell my experience :
I'm an accountant / business consultant in Italy and for my work Linux is better every year because I use LibreOffice to write documents and working on spreadsheets, Xsane to scan documents, Google Chrome for browser, Thunderbird for emails, some Dolphin service menus to work on pdf files, Okular to read / compile pdf files, Dike (an Italian professional software) for digital signatures and it is normal to find others professional softwares for my work in the cloud version (to be honest, they are only in cloud). So, no problems with Linux; I only need a stable KDE distro that don't need a lot of work to setup it (I'm lazy.....
).I agree completely with You on the fact that the best way to have professional software in Linux is the cloud software through an internet browser, but this is also the future of Windows and Mac (all the serious software houses are going in the cloud).
It is also real that, very often, a lot of necessary softwares for work are not so expensive to create but I never see a community of users that organize them and pay a software engineer (developer, coder, etc.) to create the software they want......
At last : my daughter has passion for drawing and painting, she uses Krita in Linux and she doesn't want to see Windows.....