Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

• space_iio@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it’s at today.

  Consumers don’t make software, developers do.

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  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, are you a developer?

    I am. I have written software, both open source and commercial, for almost twenty years now and the most important lesson I have learned in that time is that developers alone don’t write good software. You need to listen to UI/UX experts, testers and user feedback to make something that people actually want to use.

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  • samwise_gamgee@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Developers don’t have to be so arrogant. In fact stuff like this pushes other developers away too.

    Not to mention from what I’ve heard GIMP just doesn’t compare to the paid options for professional work.

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  • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it’s at today.

    Not true. There are tons of nice developers out there.

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  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Developers make software because they want to, or because they are paid to.

    Consumers can use free software because it fits their needs, or they can pay for software if the free options don’t suffice.

    Consumer demand for paid software drives paid software development.

    You claim to be an open source developer, cool. There are people who are not developers who can’t contribute code but still want software. Sometimes that software needs to be paid because some free options aren’t “there” yet. Yes they could pay or donate to open source developers, but they can also tell a company they want to pay for linux software which is what this thread is about, in a community that isn’t focused on open source software

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