Microsoft is becoming more and more a pain in the a.... Win 11 is nagging the user with even more "advantages and reliefs", compared to Win10.
I don't want to have Win 11 on my PC and would like to get rid of _Win 10. And no - WINE is no alternative.
I would like to use my CDR with Linux to get rid of Microsoft!
So Corel, are the any plans for a Linux-Release of CDR? Please say yes..... ;-)
I believe not enough users but they went to MAC and that's only a small percentage of users so who knows.
"Windows is a crap!" Ha ha, that phrase in the subject line made me think this was yet another spam post from someone with a poor grasp of the English language.
Anyway, CorelDRAW on Linux? I think hippos will sprout wings and fly before that ever happens.
CorelDRAW on Linux is a no-go for numerous reasons. For one thing, the folks at Corel clearly don't have the resources and manpower they need just to maintain the Windows version of CorelDRAW properly. The Windows version is getting very few updates. The ".5" moniker of version 2021.5 is 100% cosmetic, numbered to attempt to convince users they're doing just as much improvement and maintenance work as rivals such as Adobe.
Adding to the development burden, Corel now has a Mac version of CorelDRAW to maintain. Apparently that isn't going so easy either.
Even if Corel wanted to develop a version for Linux, which distro should they support? Debian? Gentoo? CentOS? Ubuntu? There's only 893,773,554,321 freaking flavors of Linux out there. So if Corel did try to support Linux they would be caught in a no-win situation. Linux distros are not mutually compatible. Applications have to be "tuned" to a specific distro. In choosing one distro over all the others Corel would piss off a whole lot of Linux fans.
Finally there's the implied notion that Corel should drop its Windows version in order to move to Linux. Such a move would be suicidal. I can't speak for all other users, but me and many others in the sign industry only use the Windows platform. There is essentially ZERO Linux support of that industry. All the "CAS" applications (Flexi, SignLab, Gerber, etc) are Windows-only. Just about all routing table software is Windows-only. Nearly all the large format printing RIP applications are Windows-only, with the exception of Caldera, a product for OSX. If Corel ditched Windows support and jumped to Linux I would stop using CorelDRAW and migrate exclusively to Adobe Illustrator. I'm already using Adobe Illustrator for a growing number of tasks.
To add insult to injury almost all high end print production processes, namely server client based imposition, trapping ROOM technologies are Windows based. I know of only 1 MAC based process.
I saw this coming 10 years before all the service bureaus went belly up. All processes started as MAC, within 5 years servers and RIPS became Windows, then the PC work station started replacing the MAC. Then the service bureaus all died about 15 years ago.
To add even more insult, over the last 2 decades there has been a significant shift as to who is actually creating graphics. It used to be design shops, advertising and marketing companies, these organizations numbers are dropping like flys.
Today architectural firms, engineering firms, interior design firms, web content creation firms, e-book firms, long document/book publishers, printers, sign companies all create their own graphics.
The use of Linux is near zero, the use of MAC is in my area about 3%, Windows has about 96% of all graphic creation.
Yes now I'll hear that agencies use the MAC, true but in the North East U.S. the number of agencies have dropped over 65%. A huge one in my area was #11 in the U.S. A few years later, I believe 2 or 3, they were #7, but their sales had dropped 45%.
The same this had been decimating photography for over a decade, they're dumping Photoshop like rats leaving a sinking ship, MAC user numbers are falling down a steep hill. I'm guessing there are zero Linux photographers and I believe in another 5+ years MAC use will be about 3% as it is in other industries.
The real issue is wages for the application user have gone the same way, DOWN!
Wages are going down and down farther as a consequence of de-professionalization of the industry. Amateurs have largely taken over. Amateurs get paid what they're worth. It actually takes considerably more than just an ability to click around in a graphics application to be worthy of a professional level wage. Graphic designers are falling down into an area only a step or two above burger flippers.There are still plenty of colleges and even full blown art schools teaching graphic design, but they're stuck in quite a pickle. The high brow art schools (who charge a fortune for tuition) have to concentrate on higher end niche markets like fine art, film and specialties like 3D animation -fields more difficult for amateurs to enter. More mainstream colleges and vo-tech schools will offer courses in the more mainstream applications, like Photoshop, InDesign, etc within fields of study like graphic design or photography. Some of these schools are having a hard time maintaining department funding because the jobs field and pay scales out in the real world are hardly good enough for a student to justify taking some classes or even getting a degree.One thing that concerns me in the much bigger picture view is the United States has dominated world popular culture for much of the last century. Movies, music, art, literature and the commercial attachments to it have been American-dominated for much of that time. The same is true for corporate advertising. As we continue to gut the arts industry in this country America's dominance in all those areas will falter. Other nations (such as China) are just itching to take over the lead.
In the United States, art, graphic design, motion picture arts degrees have been added to a list of degrees that you're most likely not going to recoup you tuition dollars on. It's estimated that 47% receiving these degrees won't be in the industry long enough to break even.
It's not just designers, a few years ago I was invited to a vendors seminar on color management. No names big outfits all around.
I ask the prepress manager what the TIC of his ink limit linearization dot gain curve was for their new 6 color Heidelberg. His eyes looked like the spinning system processing indicators for about 15 seconds, then he said I push this button here. He was serious. I mean WIW this is critical information and he had no clue what I was even talking about.
The entire seminar was like a synopsis of a grade school color management course.
In most cases I agree with the wages but for smart business owners it's not that way. One client has 3 locations, a landscaper, he has a guy running CorelDRAW, he handles all graphics and media purchases.
I worked with him to show him how to photograph a vehicle and do wrap files. We've done nearly 300 vehicles. The guy does ok, enough for a nice house and a comfortable single income family. An architect client hired one of my old CorelDRAW students, she was and is great, with benefits over 6 figures and now a partnership.
It's there but hard to find, networking is key, if you have the skills!