Yes, it is. For professional and “consumer” MUSICIANS.
Not for IT Professionals. That is what I am talking about.
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Yes, and as such, I would put money on a “No, Nay, Never” likelihood that Cubase / Nuendo will ever have a supported *nix distro. Like Shepherd Book said, that’s a “special kind of trouble.”
Have you ever tried Linux?
It’s not the “OS for nerd” that you seem to think it is. (nerd is preferred to ‘freak’ which i find insulting).
There are many distros available for ‘common non-nerd people’ (Ubuntu is the first that comes to mind). And in fact, it’s a lot easier to configure than mac OS or Windows. If I am to install a windows today it would take me a full day (notably because I would want to trash as many spywares and useless programs as I can - I remember a W10 ‘PRO’ installing Candy Crush by default 
)
Ubuntu takes about 15 minutes and you’re ready to go.
Setting up a DAW like Ardour or Reaper, is very easy too. Configure them to optimise performance is no different than on any system.
You don’t need to open a terminal for anything.
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Hi you,
I for sure get your point and I dont intend to insult anybody.
Fact of life is: I do not know and have NEVER encountered a non-IT-Inclined person using LINUX on a desktop or notebook.
I just hear a screaming minority in a kind of hysterically insisting mode. “OS-drama” … that’s just about it.
I already posted once: Steinberg might observe how things evolve. And if they DO see a market (a commercially relevant one) for this, they will do it. Otherwise not. It’s as simple as that.
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But only the nerds know what they are 
Everybody has heared about Ubuntu…
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So let me see – in the last few posts alone, Linux users have been referred to as freaks, geeks, nerds and non-professionals who only use it for viewing adult material – and that’s not insulting?
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People who aren’t “it freaks” uses Web browsers for most of their tasks so they may not notice a difference in OS though 
Today I received an email with a promotion to upgrade to Nuendo 14 for a discounted price.
I will not do it, I’ll wait for the Linux version. They abandoned eLicenser, VST3 compiles fine on Linux, I think that some time in the future we’ll see a Linux port.
If someone from Steinberg replies there is a plan to release a beta Linux version within the next year or two, I’ll upgrade to fund the development. Thank you.
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What are you upgrading from? You’re currently running some other version of Cubase on what OS?
I am sorry to tell you there is not a shred of evidence that Steinberg has any interest whatsoever in Linux, I would have thought that would be fairly clear from the thread, and especially from complete lack of response by Steinberg staff or developers.
It’s the same with Adobe. Neither company will do it, unfortunately.
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@Thor.HOG sorry for crossposting, at least I reworded it at a bit.
I used to own a Mac in the early 2000s, I have a Nuendo 13 license and I ran it on Windows 11 before switching to Linux at the end of the last year. I’ve been buying Nuendo since version 4, first with my former company and then as a personal license. I just want Steinberg to know that they lost a customer, maybe they don’t care, but it’s a good thing to keep the conversation going and let them know.
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@Andro That’s fair, it’s their business choice.
At the moment I don’t have any interest in funding companies that don’t consider Linux. I just want to be vocal about it, maybe some other will join.
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Fair enough. Curiously, what are you using as a replacement for N13 on Linux? Not that I can do anything about it; I’m just curious as to what solution you’ve chosen.
And BTW, full respect for sticking to your principals. I have a similar commitment regarding personal use of MSFT products, so I understand.
I don’t think there is anything in the Linux world that compares to Nuendo for film work. But I don’t do film work anymore and now I just record music and sounds for fun. I am pretty pleased with Reaper… fast, extremely customizable, cheap and runs on any major OS. But I would go to the extent of buying a full Nuendo license (not un upgrade) if they made a Linux version.
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If you’re serious about a linux port (just think about all the developer time they’d have to devote to it - that will cost money).
You could start a GoFundMe type of thing with the goal being $100k.
If you could raise 100k upfront to fund development then SB might consider it.
I guess the question is how much is a Linux port worth to you?
No I’m not gonna start that GoFundMe 
and I know that $100k will barely cover the cost of one year of a single developer in Germany, not enough for a Linux port.
Still, I’m not going back to Windows or Mac in the near future, and there’s no point for me to buy a software that I cannot use anymore. I am here only to send a message to Steinberg/Yamaha:
“In case you’ll consider to release a Linux version I would buy it right away even paying the full license. In case you will announce the intention of developing Cubase/Nuendo for linux and it should take 5 years to make, I would buy every upgrade until you release it, just for supporting the company.”
Maybe there are more people like me.
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This argument keeps getting rolled out, with no evidence to support it. This does not seem to have impeded development of Steinberg products on ARM, for example – I’ve seen nobody complain about that. If support for Windows on ARM can suddently appear as part of a regular major version update, well, surely that was trivial, then?
Forget crowd-funding. I would happily pay a premium for a version that would allow me to run on Linux, even if some features had to be sacrificed in the process. This has also been done before with Steinberg’s mobile apps, where Android versions were missing some features compared to the iPhone versions.
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yeah, that’s not how development works.
OSX and Linux, although they have the same core, are actually quite different OSs.
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i want to pay Steinberg OS . no more microsoft .