Linux Support

Please find a detailed answer to the question "Why Capture One isn't available on Linux?": https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002902958-Why-Capture-One-Isn-t-Available-on-Linux-Yet

The world is changing, Microsoft and Apple may be expensive and/or no longer secure for users in Europe in the foreseeable future. An alternative to Apple and Microsoft is therefore more necessary than ever before. The announcement that Capture One will no longer be implemented for Linux is bad news for “old” Capture One users.

5 years and they still didn't add linux support. I might cancel my subsription, if they don't announce it soon.

please add linux support so that the app can be used.

A Linux version would be great!
I paid twice already for CaptureOne and I'd happily pay a few more times to upgrade to a Linux version.
CaptureOne and Affinity Photo are the only reasons why I'm still running a Windows VM, but it's clunky to use it like that since my VM is remote with a dedicated GPU.
Everything else I have on Linux already, including PixInsight and SiriL for astrophotography, and then DaVinci Resolve Studio for my videography work.

Things have changed in the past few years and there's a lot of new linux users that are more than willing to pay for software. Linux is gaining more and more traction into the mainstream.

The only two options in Linux are RawTherapee and Darktable. Neither are production-ready. Darktable is the closest to professional usage, but its UI is very very clunky and not going to be changed any time soon. It's why for my photography work I still need the Windows VM with a dedicated GPU.

I'd rather have CaptureOne running on my Linux laptop. There's no need anymore for distribution-specific builds either. There's AppImage or Flatpak that just works.
There's also for example DaVinci Resolve which is distributed as an .run file and just works on all mainstream distros. I'm running it on Garuda (Arch), but the same file can be used to install it on Ubuntu, Fedora and basically any other distro.
I ran it on Pop!_OS as well, which is based on Ubuntu.

The increasing uncertainty with US companies may make it necessary to abandon operating systems from Microsoft or Apple. Is a Linux version planned, for example?

Volker

With Windows or MacOS having big big concerns on privacy and reliabilty, a Linux version is just a must for pros... Supporting only x86-64 and ARM64 on the most "pro" distributions (Fedora, Ubundu, Suse) would be just enongh.

Common, even Davinci Resolve works on Linux !

Yes, a Linux support will be fine! I generally prefer Linux and because of Windows 11 installation requirements I will have to run Linux as avirtual Machine for internet access and Windows only for Photo and Graphical Editing....

Hi everyone, 
Thank you for the suggestion - this is not something we are currently working on.

This does not mean this is a bad suggestion or that it will never be adressed, but in an effort of transparency we want you to know that we are not currently allocating resources to solving this issue.

We will revisit the status of this thread if and when it changes.

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And thanks for participating in the discussion - your comments alone provide a lot of information for the whole community.

Yeah.  Why am I getting emails about topics from years back as if they were posted today?  I've also been guilty of replying to an old post not realizing the date.

IF Capture One wants us to use this form, they really need to make it function somewhat appropriately.  Have I voted a post up or down?  How about some indication?  Am I subscribed to a topic?  Again, a visual indication would be nice.  So many problems here.

But, amongst the various fires, this is maybe not the most significant.

Ouch, my bad, sorry! Haven't checked the years the request was already waiting.

Yes, from what I saw from darktable users, there are already good alternatives around. Do you have any idea why Capture One keeps the request "logged"? Never mind, some things don't need to be understood.

Don't worry JoJu. Many Windows applications, including several from Topaz Labs (DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, Gigapixel AI, and perhaps Photo AI) now work flawlessly on Linux using Wine, so getting C1 to work seems less urgent today than it might have been a few years ago. We have many more good alternatives today.

I don't support this "splitting dev resources into a not super widespread OS with lots of variations". It's not only adapting the code but also make Linux users, used to OpenSource software for free to pay for an app.

"I know that C1 is a Windows application" - well, then you know only half of the truth. Windows and Mac OS are supported from 2007 on and the Pro and DB version were first supported on a Mac. From Mac's Unix version to Linux should not be too far away? Maybe, but why? For 18 people supporting the request? If this 18 would share the costs, fine. But I doubt so and I'm not willing to pay my license fees as long as so many other feature requests are open.

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+1 to Wine as a POC.

I know that C1 is a Windows application and also that a number of people would like to use it on Linux.  That is essentially what this feature request is about.  I also know that Wine runs regular, well behaved, Windows applications well.  So why not take advantage of that?

If the Phase One company isn't confident that there is a large enough number of potential Linux users to justify a full-blown port at this point, then my suggestion is that the developers explore what it would take to make it run under Wine.  As mentioned above, Wine is rather good at running regular Windows applications, so it may very well turn out to be a very simple task to make its installer work with Wine.

I'm sure that some Wine developer would be happy to take on this task, but since I think that the code is proprietary and closed, it would probably be much easier for those with access to the code (i.e. the C1 developers).

I assume that Phase One would like to see Linux users as their customers, although they may understandably hesitate to invest a lot if they consider this market segment too small.  Therefore my suggestion is for the C1 developers to investigate whether it would be trivial to make the application install and run under Wine.  I do not suggest that they make massive changes to the application should it turn out that there is some fundamental problem.  I have have seen other cases where a Windows program doesn't work under Wine simply because the developers have included a test to see which version of Windows it is running on.  When that test returns an unpredicted result, the application throws an error rather than doing its best to run...  In at least one such case, it was trivial to make it work without compromising its behaviour on Windows.

the point was - C1 is a regular Windows application that behaves well enough on a regular Windows OS installation... so it is rather a Wine's developers job to make C1 work in Wine as it is, not Capture One's developers job to do anything differently... their job is to make sure it works on Windows

> And is there a reason why Wine can't simply run a regular Windows application w/o issues ?

Well, Wine does run many regular Windows applications without issues.  Sometimes the use of undocumented features might cause problems, but I think that the problem in this case is that the Capture One program relies on a specific version of the .NET Framework and if that is not installed, it tries to install it.  When I tried to run it, everything looked fine until the installer tried to pull in the framework using some utility that is probably available in Windows.  So I don't think that the major issue is that the programs themselves won't run under Wine, but rather that the problem may be related to the way different components are stitched together.  Just a guess though, from someone who does not have access to the source code.  However, if that is indeed the case, then it would probably be relatively easy to fix.  For someone who has access to the source code and setup details.

> Is there any reason why it couldn't be made to run under Wine?

And is there a reason why Wine can't simply run a regular Windows application w/o issues ?