Please: Linux version

Hello, everybody out there!

Well, it seems the question is asked from time to time, but I guess it is good to show that there are some interest for it. And since "system" closed the last thread, despite it being still active, I couldn´t add my voice so I try to do that here.

So, could Native Instrument please release some Linux versions of their software—I know, you still can make them run with Wine—and their drivers? It turns out they are using Qt (a pretty good choice IMHO) which is compatible with Linux (it somehow started on it) and their hardware is actually running Linux. There is probably not much to do to have some Linux versions.

By the way, with Flatpak ( https://flatpak.org/ ) you can easily make packages that will run on any distribution. Native Instruments can even create its own server if they want to. In any case, it is possible to sell products for Linux without changing Native Instruments’ business model.

A lot of people will be switching to Linux (now Windows 10 is end of life, and slightly older computers will not work with win 11). Native Instruments is losing part of the market here, while there's no need for that.

(I didn’t know how to make the suggestion, I hope I have not been too much insistent.)

Best regards.

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tobeadj

it doesn't work even on the supported systems ,native access already has so many problems on Mac osx and windows latest updates, I would love to see linux support ….I don't think that it will be soon….

DunedinDragon

I doubt any Linux advocate will ever read and understand the rationale for why Linux will always fail in the broader marketplace because they don't understand how the software industry works in the broader sense, nor do they want to understand it. But it has very little to do with any technical aspects of a product and way more to do with it being a profitable venture. And that's very hard to do without a significant number of licenses purchased in order to pay for the cost of development, support and distribution for any given platform.

What doesn't matter is the total volume of Linux users. In this case it's the total volume of Linux users which use the platform specifically for doing the sort of work Native Instruments produces, and we're really talking about hundreds of thousands for any platform before a product can really be profitable and sustainable in the kind of market that Native Instruments is targetting. That's why, across all sorts of different production applications, most sustained products target the Mac or Windows and very few target Linux. The numbers just aren't there regardless of how much you plead for it.

I would suspect I'm a pretty typical user profile for someone that uses Native Instrument products. Probably 80 to 90% of my time on the computer tends to revolve around creating music content both studio and live production. My working environment is Windows and Ableton Live because I know the internet is filled with resources on those two products to help me find knowledgeable answers when I need them from a very wide range of users in addition to the customer support provided from the vendor. I've worked with Native Instruments products for the past 6 years or so and it's been very stable and dependable across several different releases of the product, even the latest one which was a significant change. But I haven't had a single week in which the work I do was held up because I couldn't get an answer to whatever problem I happen to encounter. And that includes a complete rebuild of my system I had to do recently due to a fried motherboard which also fried my system SSD.

My point here being that Windows and Mac are NOT going away anytime in the forseeable future. I doubt Linux will be going away, but the count of users on both Windows and Mac doing this sort of work predominantly are in a different universe than Linux, and that's what pays for Native Instruments introducing new products and sustaining older products. Regardless of what complaints you might read on this forum.

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