Linux support

Since the team needs a huge bunch of people arguing and voting, maybe “just another request” will do.

I can’t afford replacing my whole workstation, I have friends in the industry that don’t have this money either, and they use microsoft only for the Adobe suite (photoshop, illustrator or indesign, mostly).

We pay for your product, and our workstation’s OS should not be an accessibility issue.

You already support Mac and Windows. Linux is just a few steps further.

We’re using Adobe suite mostly because, so far, other products are “not enough” (yet, be aware of that).

If you don’t keep up with the pace where it’s going, people will migrate to another tool.

I already have some friends that ditched Photoshop in favor of Affinity (and it’s FREE dang it). The change was hard, but they made it. Entire companies did, which is quite impressive too.

On my side, I’m planning to work on requesting the Affinity team to make changes that will make it “closer” to how Photoshop works, for now, because it’s the quickest workaround.

And Affinity works on Linux.

I already use it sometimes, when it’s easy enough.

In the meantime, some people have tried to hack into Wine/Proton in order to make Adobe CC installable on Linux. I’ve done my share of research too, but haven’t digged into Wine’s code enough to make relevant changes, but it’s on the way.

Check these out:

• https://github.com/corbindavenport/creative-cloud-linux
• https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/issues/11
• https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/717
• https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/pull/310
• https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10025

If volunteers can do it in their free time, you must be able to do it too.

You can do it guys.

You’re rich enough to book a small team of 2-3 developers just to support this, and considering the expertise they should have, it can be done as quickly as in a few weeks.

And if you don’t do it, well, it means that the loss of market will be somehow deserved, sadly.