P: Provide support for Linux

I would also like to have a port to linux. I have double boot just for lightroom, photoshop and office (but I do most use alternatives for office). Many times I do use lightroom in a windows virtual machine running in a linux host, but the gpu acceleration does not work very fast that way.

I'm a professional photographer and use Linux (Ubuntu/Mint) for everything since about 20 years, and only maintain a dual boot with Windows for Lightroom. I was asking ChatGPT what it would mean if Adobe would be prepared to maintain a Linux version, considering the growth of Linux plus the fact that (according to AI) a lot of code is already multi-platform (including Android):

Long discussion with ChatGPT, but at the end this came out:
"There are potentially 50+ million Ubuntu-family desktop installations worldwide. A relatively small population of serious photographers among them could support approximately 300,000–500,000 Lightroom subscriptions, representing roughly $45–75 million in annual recurring revenue."

But my guess is that a lot of other people that are not serious photographers would tend to subscribe to LR as well, as there still is no Linux software that is as simple and quick to use as LR. Also I know from friends that are willing and sometimes eager to move to Linux, but hesitate because of no LR and they don't want to maintain a dual-boot pc. Plus I also know people that now use Apple, but really like the whole idea of Linux and would be willing to move to Linux as well. I really think LR on Linux could change a lot of things. The only thing is that I'm afraid Adobe and Microsoft made a secret deal never to do this...

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.