>>5141691>doesn't work in the real worldI make my money exclusively using Linux. Most of the computer science research in the area of machine learning runs on linux, so it's pretty alive and well in the real world.
Noone uses Windows (what for?) or Mac (lel, only AMD, try doing DL on that, ROCm is shit unfortunately) here. Almost all big projects in free software are maintained by paid people. The engine of google chrome is free and maintained by paid software developers, firefox is maintained by paid developers (even if it has gone to shit), the linux kernel is maintained by paid developers (microsoft and other corporations dump insane amounts of money there). All the big Deep Learning/Machine Learning frameworks (pytorch, tensorflow, ...) are maintained by paid developers and are still free software. Free software and open source doesn't mean hobbyist software, in many areas this stuff is the state of the art. It just isn't in art.
The problem with drawing/image manipulation software is that you can do everything the average user wants already with gimp (kek) and krita. There are so few people actually drawing professionally digitally that there is no real interest behind developing this stuff. Nobody is interested in creating software for coom drawing monkeys.
Also the industry that could use the software isn't interested, because their solutions are enough. Drawing/painting is not some kind of magic thing where you need turbo advanced technology. Photoshop and similar stuff is enough, and it already exists. Most painters/artists don't even know what a loonix is, they just buy the shiny thing with the apple on it, it works and gives you peer admiration, and that's that. And if their data is lost/stolen/whatever they don't care, because it's just shitty mass produced "art" anyway. Privacy and security is irrelevant because nobody steals your "concept art", that stuff is worthless and could easily be produced by someone else.
