I'm mentioning this in inkscape since it's an interesting idea executed by a company rather than a free software project:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
Take a look at the bottom, where it says: "Ubuntu is our favorite version of Linux. Interested in giving it a whirl? You can install and run Ubuntu from a Live CD or USB stick, or install it to run alongside Windows.
Grab an Ubuntu installer from Canonical and see what it’s all about."
That's really interesting from our perspective, because our website never recommends using a free software desktop, or linking to ubuntu's website.
Are we too cautious about recommending something like Ubuntu along side using Inkscape? Should we say that linux is the platform with the most support and Ubuntu is probably the one you should try first. Or are we happy with the no-opinion presentation we have currently? Is it false balance to present ourselves as if all desktops are equal to us?
Anyway, I'm just mulling this over.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
"Is it false balance to present ourselves as if all desktops are equal to us?"
Aren't they?
I think it makes Inkscape appear a stronger and more versatile program, to give the impression it works equally well on all 3 major systems (even if it might be a little faster on Linux systems).
I think it would be a slippery slope to start mentioning that Inkscape is made for Linux, and only by the way, that we bother to make it available for Windows and OS (Mac). Pretty soon we'll notice that mostly only Linux or Ubuntu users are installing Inkscape (hmm, I wonder why?) So if mostly Linux/Ubuntu users download it, why bother making it work with the other 2 systems.
I wouldn't mind making a more prominent association to open source software in general, though. (like "Inkscape is proud to be an open source project, in the company of other great open source projects, such as...." and name at least 3 others)
Comments from a simple user :-) brynn
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Le 11/05/2016 à 19:43, Brynn a écrit :
"Is it false balance to present ourselves as if all desktops are equal to us?"
Aren't they?
I think they are not, at least on the developer side, as for many cross-platform free software projects. Also, I think there are fewer professional vector drawing programs which work natively on GNU/Linux than on the other systems. Inkscape may be the intuitive primary choice for vector drawing for a GNU/Linux user (or it might be decided by the preference for free software), whereas it may not on systems where there are stronger competitors.
I think it makes Inkscape appear a stronger and more versatile program, to give the impression it works equally well on all 3 major systems (even if it might be a little faster on Linux systems).
I agree. I don't feel it useful to ‘promote’ GNU/Linux with Inkscape to regular users, it is not the purpose of the project; its purpose is to be cross-platform. The promotion of GNU/Linux should be minimal, as it is already actually: on the download pages, GNU/Linux appears before the other systems, and OS X which is probably less supported than the two others appears last. Just because the project is mainly developed on GNU/Linux.
Comments by a computer student and regular user. -- Sylvain
On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 20:05 +0200, Sylvain Chiron wrote:
"Is it false balance to present ourselves as if all desktops are equal to us?" Aren't they?
I think they are not, at least on the developer side, as for many cross-platform free software projects.
I should clarify. "Equal to us" means how we consider them. As a project we could consider Linux a preferred desktop, even if it's technically exactly the same. This is because we have a Free Software culture which supports the social and moral benefits of Free Software, even if we're not going to limit Inkscape to Linux.
I don't think there's much benefit to thinking about the technical support since we should always allow developers the space to support inkscape on any platform they want really.
Martin,
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:20:32PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
I'm mentioning this in inkscape since it's an interesting idea executed by a company rather than a free software project:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
Take a look at the bottom, where it says: "Ubuntu is our favorite version of Linux. Interested in giving it a whirl? You can install and run Ubuntu from a Live CD or USB stick, or install it to run alongside Windows.
Grab an Ubuntu installer from Canonical and see what it’s all about."
That's really interesting from our perspective, because our website never recommends using a free software desktop, or linking to ubuntu's website.
Are we too cautious about recommending something like Ubuntu along side using Inkscape? Should we say that linux is the platform with the most support and Ubuntu is probably the one you should try first. Or are we happy with the no-opinion presentation we have currently? Is it false balance to present ourselves as if all desktops are equal to us?
Anyway, I'm just mulling this over.
Eduard makes some good points, although I wouldn't be opposed to us evangelizing Linux more strongly on the website. I don't think we should recommend a particular flavor of Linux, though.
Bryce
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