Plenty of studios and teams do not run on Windows.
Their pipelines were built on Linux, their DCCs are tuned for it, and their artists expect it. So it matters to us that, as of today, you can spin up Spark workstations on Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu 24 right alongside Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Native Linux, on demand
If your pipeline lives on Linux, you can now work the way you already do, just on cloud hardware that scales to the job and is accessible everywhere in the world within seconds.
Houdini, Nuke, Maya, Blender, and the rest, running natively on a Rocky 9 or Ubuntu 24 workstation with as much CPU, RAM, and GPU as you need.
No dual-booting. No compatibility gymnastics. No bending your setup to fit someone else’s default.
It is the same instant access as the rest of Spark. Open a workstation from a laptop, a Mac, or even an iPad, over whatever connection you have, and it is there in under a minute.
And it is the same pay-as-you-go model. Spin it up, do the work, shut it down, and pay for the time you used, nothing more.
What’s next
Native ShareSync mounting for Linux workstations is soon on the way, so your files will mount like a local drive on Rocky and Ubuntu just as they do on Windows.
For Linux-based studios, this is a small sentence with a lot behind it. It means Spark can sit closer to the pipelines teams already trust, instead of asking them to change how they work before they can begin.
