This petition (serves as a formal poll I guess) was created by André Bauer and buried inside the “Rhino for Linux mega thread”.
I thought to give it its own topic for better visibility and ease of finding it in the future.
(Note: In terms of privacy concerns, you can change the visibility of your details to “not public” on the petition page)
My take:
It is a bit too late. I remember the linux topic coming up since the 2000s. It’s been 20 years. McNeel has rejected this for various reasons and the people that have been interested have moved on (except a few loud voices). Even if McNeel were to magically do a port now, there will not be enough buyers.
You have to understand, people just don’t care about this stuff.
As a matter of fact, 80% of the population votes the same corrupted officials over and over, all over the world, so you can safely bet that Linux being open source, better performance, more secure, is not going to change anybody opinion.
People want to use windows and people will stay on windows.
Porting Rhino to Linux will satisfy maybe 100 active users, would you spend time, money and tons of responsability, just to make 100users happy? I dont think so.
I am 99% sure that unless EU forces corporate to use Linux (or an EU-Based linux fork) due to data theft concerns (valid) there is 0% chance that McNeel will port Rhino to Linux, there is simply no business in it.
It’s a miracle Mac is supported (I assume for designers, many corps use Macbooks).
100 users? I think you are underestimating the Linux community.
If McNeel does this, I think it will gain a huge portfolio of users from a new platform who would be willing to pay for Rhino because the strongest rival of it is Blender and it lacks some of the great features of Rhino.
Correction: people want an OS where everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) just works!
Software AND hardware!
You can hate it how much you want, but Windows simply brings that. End of the story.
Windows XP times are in the past, nowaday you can plug everything on a windows pc and it. just. works.
For every user level. Simply as that.
Even my laptop from 2006 with W10 can do everything, never a problem, if performance is not required. My parents using that every week for Zoom calls and browsing.
If something doesn’t work on W10/11 most of the time is the user fault, really.
Can we say the same about Linux? Really? Are you sure?
(which distro? → huge useless discussion ahead! … don’t reply!)
I tried last year a Debian-based distro and my brother Printer simply didn’t work at all and I had problems with the GPU drivers (intel), hiccups and stuttering in simple scenes. I expect my IT skills are not bad, and still it was a total mess for me. I guess for many other people is the same.
But…
On Mac Rhino is one of the FEW CAD solutions an user have. And Rhino is really versatile and its price + perpetual licence is something awesome, absolutely!
On Linux I think the situation is similar: very few CAD solutions.
If McNeel brings Rhino in Linux, it would easily become one of the best CAD (and 2D vector design) tool in no time!
