5 reasons why you should consider supporting the Akira Project
For a long time Linux has been famed to be used only by the geeks and hardcore hackers. But this notion has gradually faded away as Linux is becoming more and more friendly even to everyday Jack and Jill.
However even with its ever increasing user friendliness and population of users, Linux has been segregated by the major companies like Adobe and Sketch leaving it without great options for design tools. Akira is about to drastically change that.
Outlined below are the 5 (compelling) reasons your should seriously consider supporting Akira.
1. It is being designed by designers for designers.
Alessandro Castellani, the lead developer behind Akira is a professional designer. It is his frustration with the lack of decent design tools for Linux that has led him to come up with Akira. In his own words he says:
I’m a Linux user myself, and I’ve been for years, but I’m the first to admit that the current status of the Linux Desktop, doesn’t allow designers to be productive and competitive in a world dominated by extremely fast, reliable, and modern proprietary applications for MacOS and Windows.
2. Akira will be free and Open Source
There is no doubt in the power of Open Source, you just have to look at the tremendous success of the Linux kernel to see how well open source contributes to great software. With this freedom, when Akira becomes successful (thanks to your generous contribution), demand for it in windows and mac will rise, and since the code is open source, it will be a piece of cake to create versions that run on other operating systems.
3. Out of Akira will come out other interesting by-products, that will be Open Source too!
In the process of designing Akira, the team behind it will design an SVG canvas that they will open source too, to the benefit of other applications that might need that same functionality.
The Canvas itself will be released as a standalone library that anyone can use inside their own project. We want more vector based apps and we want to make your life easier.
4. It is going to natively support Linux
Akira aims to deliver the best possible experience, fast, robust and memory efficient, which is why it is going to be developed targeting the native Linux code, no Electron shenanigans here.
5. The whole process of funding Akira is a social experiment
We want to prove that it’s possible to involve the Linux community in funding a Linux only project. We want to show that us, as Linux users, we’re a big enough community to fund and support these kinds of tools. We want to show that we matter. — Alecaddd on github
So there you go, the 5 reasons why you should support the Akira project. With 13 days to go (at the time of writing) before the Kickstarter campaign finishes, what are you going to do for this project that will be meaningful and help it come closer to becoming a reality.
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