P: Provide support for Linux

Macintosh desktop shares around 25 percent, Linux 5 percent in the US. For sure you know which ones are decreasing and which one is the opposite. Many creativity solutions claims we recommend run this tool run in Linux as it's faster there.

For business awareness part, I do appreciate as an intellectual property creator. Please do not complain anything as we all have our own business priorities 🙂 

"Mostly server". That's laughable.

Business awareness? For what, not your own company? Great. 

Uh, not stupidity.  Business sense and and not fanboy-ism.  

Linux  makes sense in a lot of use cases, mostly for server and development.  And for a highly technical audience that may not even align with Adobe's customer base.  I would be appalled if Adobe diverted resources away from improving Lightroom to do a port to flavor-of-the-month Linux.  And if they did so, there would be a hue and cry about all those other desktop flavors of Linux,

Great.

I can see how people(these adobe fans) see the whole Linux desktop ecosystem, with unsustainable stupidity though, and Adobe's silence for such a long time.

Leaving to dark table. It doesn't feel great seeing my account taking a slot after seeing this community. Why so angry? Bye.

Oh BTW, Linux always welcomes you 🙂

Linux is NOT Linux.  It is the category name for umpty-hundred different distributions, usually with multiple releawses and patches.  How is Adobe supposed to do even a half-decent version of quality assurance in this situatiion?  Add to that witches' brew different GUI systems.  And what if some of those versions have issues with GPU drivesr?  

What is the market share of the "leading" distro for desktop usage?  I'm guessing well under 1%.  

Adobe still has a big backlog of unfixed bugs and unfulfilled feature requests, in addition to the the large amount of work necessary to bring AI capatility into LIBRARY,  DEVELOP, and PRINT.

If you are concerned about running Lightroom on Linux, aren't you also concerned about Microsoft Office?  Personal finance software like Quicken and TurboTax?  Why aren't these companies embracing Linux for these products.  (Yes, I know about how Microsoft supports Linux.  I have Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my main system.)

Windows is a "hellscape" only to Linux True Believers.  How many of them will spend even $10/month for Lightroom if there are free, open soruce alternatives?

I think that your  passion would be better spent on developing  third-party utilities to address your Windows issues.

Linux's total market share may still be single digits but it's doubled in the past 5 years. Steam has made gaming on Linux possible, so many are switching over to get out of the hellscape that is modern Windows.

Adobe should lead on this. If they threw their support behind Linux (in a similar manner to Steam) it would let them invent the future.

I know this is asked often, but I'm asking again - can Adobe PLEASE provide support for Lightroom Classic to run on Linux.  Whether it's native, flatpaks, snaps, or whatever doesn't matter.  It's a good product.  I want to give you my money.  But I want to run it on Linux to coincide with other things I do.

"Linux is nowadays used in many production environments"

As of right now, it has about 3% market penetration - a complete waste of time as a market, for Adobe. Even Chrome OS is on more desktops.

(As an aside, I laugh at the irony that pretty much every current Linux distro these days is primarily judged on how Windows-like it is. The cognitive dissonance that must involve..!)

Anyway, it's not Adobe's job to facilitate a (relatively tiny) handful of zealots' anti-Windows bias.

It's dead simple: if you want LightRoom, use an OS it runs on. If you want Linux, do without LightRoom.

I'm 100% with Phil on this one.

I'm not opposed to bugs and improvements being done on other platforms, I'm simply proposing them to port it also to Linux.

AFAIK Flatpak was born exactly to overcome all the different libraries problem on every Linux version and should work in a sandbox with all the needed libraries coming with the software. But I admit I don't know much about it apart from the fact it was designed exactly to overcome that problem.

Desktop usage is not limited to software developers, many other fields work on Linux, such as many parts of movies production, just ask compositors on which OS they work; many work on Linux in scientific environments...

also the reason why Linux is still a specialty os is simply because much commercial software is not on it. Things are changing though, if you look around there are many examples of professional softwares being ported to Linux in the last few years. 

COMPLETELY OPPOSED.

There is a long list of outstanding bugs in the current Lightroom Classic.  Recently Adobe has been leveraging AI to improve DEVELOP and this trend needs to continue.  Further other parts of Lightroom haven't been enhanced significantly in years, notably the DAM part of LIBRARY.  For example, there is no support for subseconds, even though it is part of the EXIF standard.  And Adobe really needs to add support for "fuzzy dates" for scanned photos where the exact date is usually not known. 

In MAP, the sublocation field really needs improvement.  The BOOK module also needs siginficant improvements in options for layouts and formats.  I can't speak to the other modules.

Flatpak solves nothing.  There is still the HUGE issue of testing, and there a simply too many differnet Linux distros to test, so which ones get supported? And many different versions of each distro.

Linux is pretty much a server  system, for which it is very important.  Desktop usage is mainly confined to software developers.  If Lightoom works under (some versions of ) Linux using Wine, why is that not sufficient?  Maybe some enterprising GitHUB contributor can write a native Linux installer for Lightroom.