Using Linux on a daily basis is cool, but you also have to adjust to not being able to use the mainstream applications.

Everybody knows Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign isn’t available for Linux, so I won’t focus on them. Nor will I focus on the Microsoft Office applications.

Today I will focus on applications for development.

First out is Sourcetree from Atlassian. This application is used to manage git repositories. Atlassian has made a version for Windows and one for Apple. None for Linux. And a linux-version is highly unlikely to come in the near future.

A lot of people has spoken warmly about the GIT-client Tower. But again this is an Apple or Windows application. Not made for Linux.

A customer of mine told me that they will be using an application called Mobirise to create their new website. And so I had to download it… Except there isn’t a version for Linux available.

How about C#-development now that .Net core is being rolled out. Well, Microsoft has released a Visual Studio version for mac. I have tested it briefly and it is OK. It has the same name as the Windows version, but it is not near it’s Windows-brother. A linux version? Nope.

I do hope more and more software is being made for Linux. I’ve now moved from the Linux/Windows world to the Mac-world. Am I satisfied? Hm, not yet. The hardware looks good (awesome), but software wise I am not impressed. Actually: I find in some ways the Linux stuff better than the apple software.

In a dream world a Linux driven company started making really awesome looking laptop and desktop computers. Because the hardware looked so awesome everyone wanted it. And because everyone wanted it, the big software houses started making software for it.

And that could what needs to be done to make more and more people move to Linux… If that is what the Linux community wants that is …