I would love a linux version, just because it would allow me to close off one of the reasons that I need to keep windows computers around.
From a user standpoint, I just like the shells of linux and macOS better than windows. Theyâre more unified and task optimized (for me) than windows, which tends to feel like a shambling mess of every part of windowsâ considerable multi-decade legacy overlaid into a weird heterogeneous blob.
All this being the case, I canât make a practical case for investing time and resources in a linux port. Most of the practical deployment benefits you get from building industrial grade systems on linux are the targeted removal of non-essential system parts, and security hardening. These and other benefits can be achieved just as well by running Touch on something like Windows 10 IoT, which lets you disable alot of the userland bits that could interfere with an unattended system.
As for my antipathy towards windows, Iâve had to get cozy with the fact that if youâre going to be someone who uses computers professionally, you have to accept that you donât get to use precisely the computers that you want. Thereâs also the fact that once youâre running your cross-platform applicationâwhether itâs Adobe AE, Touch or whateverâthe applications essentially behave the same.
Iâd be just as happy to continue to plug away at touch projects on my mac and deploy them on windows boxes.
If I could fullscreen the Touch UI on my Windoze workstation the way I can on my mac, that would probably get me most of the way over my windows antipathy as well, since I wouldnât be as grumpy about losing screen real-estate to windowsâ idiotic title bars and start menu.