Who the hell is using LINUX in Architecture?

[Rob]

Ok,
I have had enough of talking about LINUX, free UNIX etc.
Personally I have never seen using LINUX in an architectural practice...
This poll is to kind of compare apples with apples in terms of professions, try to be honest fellos...
if you selected 'Other' please specify.

People who are not interested in having AC for LINUX please do not vote in this poll.

Thank you

[Rob]

mate,
read it properly and do not jump into quick conclusions...it's based on the number of AC talkers (15345)

[Anonymous]

"Who the hell is using" .... hmm, don't know, let say ... honey on lettuce? The answer is: nobody, until you tell them, and then, it is love for connesseurs.

[Anonymous]

hi Rob.
Most of all in my post is joke... Of cause I understand what you mean...
But problem of how you tricky calculate is actual...
I told earlier that I didn't think that GS make Linux version...
Decision accepted...
And GS can only justify it

So whatever arguments we would advance here result will be the same...

All this is flood... smile

[James Murray]

Thank you for your good work on this, Rob.

I move that we change the "Example" in the the forum heading to, "Should Archicad be on a 12-month release cycle?"

If that question popped up over and over again, it might actually reveal something about how users view the program in their workflow over the long term, rather than this hypothetical micro-niche idea that, trust me, is not on GS's scope and never will be, ever.

[Anonymous]

We have some american style joke about such decisions...
If it will be translated to english it approximately will be:
The problems of indians is don't worring Sheriff...
I'm not a translater and I'm sorry for my poor english, I could not protect such idea in whole buity of mine language that I know...
So you can only said such:
We should not do... We don't want... We can't And so on...
from my poor knowlage it (AFAIU I repeat) not so hard as you tald about... GS is lazy... They don't want to move there ass from chair... And make step in future...
I can understand JM from US who protect some "american wonder" by Stieve&Bill But I don't understand GS in any case... You europeans why you take such position? We (europeans) have really good OS as Linux AFAIU the french government is offissially support Linux in Mandriva face... EU is talked about using OS Linux as primary OS... I'm sorry for You (GS) that you sell your sole to US... You lost your historical proud...
PS I'm sorry If I use some words that have more than one sence. I'm have really poor english... I don't want to insult(оскорбить) any person or nation... in any case
All that I said is only my own opinion (IMHO)...

[Rob]

Thank you for your good work on this, Rob.

oh, I have not heard such kind words of appreciation for a long time...

this hypothetical micro-niche idea that, trust me, is not on GS's scope and never will be, ever

I know, however my minuscule ideas attempt to finally bury this topic for good by either agitating (I see it works) or provoking all 15 (fifteen) potential users of linuxAC to show up and face to a ratio like 0.05% of probability that someone would get a flying fuck about porting whole AC circus to Linux.

It sounds very contradictory so in case of any liability for posting this I can not be held liable unless I could.

[Rod Jurich]

James wrote:
/....I move that we change the "Example" in the the forum heading to, "Should Archicad be on a 12-month release cycle?"/.....

I'll second that, definitely

[Anonymous]

Hey folks,

I voted for "other".

I left IT for rehabbing/building and I have to say I think _some_ mainline architectural CAD company is going to wake up and and realize that there is a market as large as OSX, and growing at a faster rate, that is a green field for this category of software.

Mac folks, slow your roll, I know your numbers are growing also (and this pleases me greatly), the main reason both platforms are growing is the continued poor quality (among other things) of Windows.

I have been following IT news _very_ closely for the past decade, and there is a sea change afoot. The Windows client monopoly has started to bleed, you can easily read about the Mac numbers increase because every switch is logged as a sale, but not so with Linux.

Of the numerous server and client Linux installs I have done, not one has ever been counted in any of the OS percentage breakdowns. This is the case with Linux, only a small percentage are actual sales and thus counted.

You can now read about _very_ large Linux _client_ deployments, in the tens and even hundreds of thousands. Anyone who says Linux will never be an appreciable desktop market simply has not been paying attention.

I am currently running Chief Architect and sketchup on Windows, on top of virtualbox, on top of Linux. I would drop CA in a heartbeat for a native Linux CAD package that was as 3D centric as CA is and AC seems to be.

Honestly I think Google is going cross the line first with a Linux port, Autocad as the market leader (and wired to the tits with MS dependent tech) will be last I suspect.

If folks want to take the position that AC simply doesn't have the resources to support a third platform, that argument at least has some legs.

But if the argument is that Linux will never be a viable desktop platform, bzzzzt, I'm sorry wrong answer.

It already exceeds OSX, maybe not in particular design fields, yet, but it is only a matter time.

It's just simple economics.

[Rob]

I am currently running Chief Architect and sketchup on Windows, on top of virtualbox, on top of Linux.

I am sorry mate but I would have to be off my tits on a tart fuel to do this... it is so far from the commercial reality as it could be.

If folks want to take the position that AC simply doesn't have the resources to support a third platform, that argument at least has some legs.

yep...

But if the argument is that Linux will never be a viable desktop platform, bzzzzt, I'm sorry wrong answer.

bzzzzt, I'm sorry wrong forum... virtually nobody uses it in the area of arch., therefore most of us are not interested in further features... thus the topic name: Who the hell is using LINUX in Architecture?.

[Anonymous]

I am currently running Chief Architect and sketchup on Windows, on top of virtualbox, on top of Linux.

I am sorry mate but I would have to be off my tits on a tart fuel to do this... it is so far from the commercial reality as it could be.

Yea, seems like the long way around, but actually once you factor in the additional RAM overhead virtualized XP is _alot_ easier to maintain. If Windows becomes corrupted for whatever reason it takes all of 10 seconds to roll back to a good snapshot, and a windows BSOD doesn't take down your whole work environment. As far as client virtualization goes you will increasingly see more and more of it, it has some major pluses. It is, imo, a better route than WINE/codeweavers or Windows on bare metal.

If folks want to take the position that AC simply doesn't have the resources to support a third platform, that argument at least has some legs.

yep...

If I had a week in the Bahamas for every vendor that _used_ to say Linux was not a platform that was important to them and now port to it...

But if the argument is that Linux will never be a viable desktop platform, bzzzzt, I'm sorry wrong answer.

bzzzzt, I'm sorry wrong forum... virtually nobody uses it in the area of arch., therefore most of us are not interested in further features... thus the topic name: Who the hell is using LINUX in Architecture?.

Hunh? wrong forum? is this whole thread rhetorical? Of course most don't do architecture work on Linux, there are few mainline CAD applications for it.

"therefore most of us are not interested in further features..." you are refering to Linux here? AC on linux as a further feature? You lost me a little with that last paragraph.

The thread asked who was doing CAD work on Linux, I gave you an example, or were you just looking for posts that confirm your conclusion?