If Canon would port DPP and Adobe would port their Creative Cloud to Linux I would happily leave Win 10 behind forever because Linux does everything else I need and does so without wasting my time.
I use both HP Z 840 and Z 820 workstations and both are configured as dual boot Linux and Win 10 Pro 64 machines. I am doing most of my work now on the Z 840 and although it has plenty of resources it is still amazing to me how much Win 10 gobbles doing all of its inane little tasks.
And I hope that whoever is doing the software development for Canon will evolve to make better use of available resources.
I have the Z 840 equipped with two Xeon 6 core 3.4 Ghz CPUs with 128 GB of memory per CPU, a 1 TB HP Z turbo drive directly on the high speed processor bus for DPP to use in addition to 16 TB of spinning storage and 2 TB of additional solid state storage, and a pair of Nvidia Quadro 4000 workstation graphics cards with 8 GB of memory and 1,664 Cuda cores per card and some of the processing through DPP is painfully slow, especially when using files from my 1DX III and using the clone/stamp function.
But while DPP is spinning its busy wheel, processor loading has never exceeded 20% even though the system is also running other stuff and stays at under 10% over most of the DPP processing cycle. Memory utilization stays in the single digit range. DPP GPU utilization is pretty much impossible to determine because it never jumps above 10% and Windows Client Server Runtime Process is usually responsible for that even when nothing else is running, just another "feature" of the inefficient bloatware also known as Windows 10.
So I also hope that Canon moves stuff over and in the process greatly improves some of the routines but I am not holding my breath waiting.
Rodger
EOS 1DX M3, 1DX M2, 1DX, 5DS R, M6 Mark II, 1D M2, EOS 650 (film), many lenses, XF400 video
