I do not agree with you, sorry. There are many devices running MacOs which is probably less important. In my case I would have been able to buy hundreds of your devices but we have not done it precisely by the lack of support for our main OS which is a Debian derivative. So it is up to you. If you don’t develop your own software and do not facilitate this labor for volunteers, I (We) won’t use or buy your products. Easy!. I don’t think that at the dates we live, the task to port your software to an open platform like is GNU/Linux shall be a very difficult task. In fact, I will probably help in testing and support tasks and as I, I’m sure there will be hundreds of volunteers. So I want to invite you to change your mind. You have a good product!. Make it available not only for M$ customers. There is a vast world beyond private software and believe me it is worth enough to you.
In the hope of seeing a very soon version of your software, I would like to thank you an greet you effusively!.
This is an interesting discussion as we have the same feedback in my company. I get that people want software for Linux. We do support Linux with certain software we develop, however, it is a very limited flavor and specific versions. With our main 3D software we can’t do it without significant expense and time. It would be cheaper to buy those customers windows hardware also the UI experience will be horrible, X windows based which typically looks sub par
From a development perspective we couldn’t even if we wanted to as we rely on a certain number of external libraries which aren’t available outside of windows anymore. Developing replacements would take years and resources and still wouldn’t be as good as then3rd party. Throw the ROI calculation on top and the idea is doomed.
That’s my perspective, would be nice but I’m guessing Revopoint face similar issues with development.
yeah its the same with quite a few of the company’s i have worked with we did try with a few products most of the machine based systems were in fact Linux but all the desktop were windows basically the juice is not worth the squeeze we could have a customer throw us a $70M contract our way if we were to do Linux we would have to tell them to walk. that being said we would say the same thing for Mac. I use Linux for my cnc and robotic projects my former boss was at uni in Finland when Linus was and others were brewing it up
@zafarraya while I am not a Linux user, has anyone tried running Revopoint software under WINE? I know that there has been a LOT of development of WINE/Proton by VaVLE for the Steamdeck and other hand held gaming computers. Seems most current AAA games that run under WINE are on par or have higher hardware requirements than the current Revopoint software.
Also just made an account to state my interest in a Linux version being released. I’m lucky enough that my professional work is supported by Linux. However, many of my colleagues over the years have stated they would like to also make the move away from Windows but cite these exact types of scenarios as the reason they cannot.
You don’t build a bridge based on the number of people swimming across the river.
At the absolute bare minimum, please work with the community in order for the software to install cleanly and work through Wine, this should be a much smaller development lift, leverage free labor for beta testing and troubleshooting (via the community), and would provide a more accurate gauge of your user-base that would use a Linux option if one existed.
Given how many professionals I’ve witnessed within the robotics and self-driving cars industries using Linux for their development work, it’s kinda surprising to me how there’s currently zero native Linux option on the market for 3d scanning.
sorry cant help myself, Bridges are built when the economic benefit is greater then the cost of the bridge! ( I have participated in that calculation) not the desire to cross the river! so yes you do build bridges based on the number of people swimming the river or canoe, barge or ferries.
Sure, it is not a perfect analogy. Maybe a more accurate example would be, everyone is currently taking the barge and some people are asking for a DIY paddle-boat option. If there’s a measurable decrease in people on the barge and an increase in paddle-boats, maybe the bridge isn’t a terrible plan.
I have said it before, I use Linux, particularly LinuxCNC. I have also put it in some devices I worked on. I think we would be holding our breath for a long time for it to be available to us for economic reasons, and I can’t blame Revo for that; it is a straight-up economic decision. But I’m guessing if there was a bit of a library available with some aspects that remain proprietary already in a binary “black box” and then some information on how to use it, I’m sure the Linux community would very quickly roll your own application
Yeah, we’re replying on a thread that is 4+ years old, I’m not delusional enough to be holding my breath lol, just let me dream!
I am also just a hobbyist with plenty of other unfinished projects to occupy my time instead of attempting to RE the whole device, so it not being available on Linux just gives me an excuse to not spend my money on it and work on the things I already have
I ‘get’ the economic decision of it, not meaning to sound like I’m condemning Revo for not bringing a Linux fork to market. I think most people using these tools are also paring them with software such as Fusion360 or Solidworks, both of which I’m assuming have deeper pockets than Revo and they don’t have Linux options either (web based doesn’t count lol). Just saying anecdotally, I don’t (*rarely) hear people mention they don’t want to make the switch to Linux, it’s just the software they require isn’t available to them so it’s a non-starter. Even had my mom running Linux back in 2012 and it did everything she needed, but when she got a Cri-Cut machine that was the end of that. I don’t blame her, or Cri-Cut even, it’s just the reality of how things are. With the effort Valve is putting into Proton/Wine, I’d just like to see more Windows software developed in a way that is at least a little more friendly to the translation layer, that alone would be a decent win. At risk of highlighting my ignorance, isn’t this already having to be done on the OSX side of things, writing the x86_64 package to play nicely with Rosetta when running on their ARM based systems? Or does Revo just not run on those either?
also the UI experience will be horrible, X windows based which typically looks sub par
