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Windows/MacOS are great for developing native software for the respective platform. For virtually every other development scenario i can think of, Linux is imho the weapon of choice, not just web development.

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How about editing or colour grading a commercially-released movie?

DaVinci Resolve is historically a Unix (IRIX) program, and works best on Linux; post-houses who have dedicated Resolve workstations generally use Linux.

How many people are doing that? But as to your question, wasn’t the original high-performance version of Da Vinci Resolve only available on Linux?

> colour grading a commercially-released movie

I'm wondering if you deliberately picked an example where the undisputed industry standard runs on Linux.

I didn't! I had no clue. I'm even surprised Linux has good support for the colour space needed for colour grading.

OTOH, Blender and DaVinci Resolve have first class support for Linux.

You’d use a specific workstation, not a general purpose counter. That workstation is probably something like a quantel rio,

Rio was apparently Quantel's last ever product, released seven years ago. These days I don't think there's any reason to use specialist computing hardware, although if you're high-end you'd have a bunch of specialist input devices and calibrated HDR monitors.

Oh yea they were bought by grass valley. Been a long time since I was in that area.

Nobody is grading on a laptop, they are doing it in a proper post production suite with a dedicated workstation, same with audio, and editing

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