P: Provide support for Linux

I understand. I'm not a pro photographer, but when I migrated I had more than 30000 pictures. I have then implemented a minimal circuitry in darktable to retrieved some development (do not expect much, but it may speed up a bit the migration process). One important point is that all the keywords should be retrieved. The crop also should be quite accurate. This was with Lr 3.x.

Okay.  I'm intrigued.  I am a professional photographer and this is my slowest time of year, so I've got a little extra time on my hands.  I'll try out darktable and see how it compares.  One problem I have with leaving Lightroom is that I've converted many of my raw files to Adobe's LossyDNG format, which (last I checked) is not supported by any other software.  My best work is still in standard DNG format, so it's really just the outtakes and the less important stuff to which I would not have access.

The good news is that you don't have to wait for Adobe to port Lightroom to Linux. You have a better alternative with darktable. I've been a long time user (and teacher) of Lightroom and I can tell you that there is no chance for me to go back to Lightroom. There is even pro photographer using darktable at this point.

And we should all face it: Adobe as a BIG problem with Linux, I suppose the marketing department is missing some cleaver people.

Apple doesn't do anything substantial with Macs as it forms only 10% of their profits (https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/12/20/152206/at-apple-mac-is-getting-far-less-attention---how-it-ha...).

Adobe isn't doing anything for Linux as majority of users is on Mac/Windows. No sensible reasons are given to outsiders.

Majority of creative users I know would like to slash the feedback cycles / production time by buying a rack full of HW next to their desks, but are unable to as they are used to Mac OS and stuck with Apple HW.

Circle is complete.

Only one that can break it from economy stand point is Adobe (it's easier to change the software than people or HW).

I cancelled my Adobe subscription 1/2 year ago after years of being a loyal customer... 

Steve, do you have enough info from inside to explain why it's so difficult to port to Linux and charge customers to do the port? Hell they would get enough money in few hours doing a kick starter. I guess most of the OS dependent code Adobe product have inside is already separated out due to Windows / Mac OS differences.

Cheers.

Why is there no native Version? The last "official" answer which I could find is a forum post from 6 years ago, which pointed out that a linux version is "on the radar of our engineers". Are there any news? Is linux support planned? Considering the huge amount of search results I would guess that I am not the only one with this idea. Are there any recent developments or updates you guys can provide us with?

thank you in advance

Thanks.

Hi Rory,

Sorry for the delay in response.

We are looking into this.

Thanks,
Smit Keniya
Adobe Lightroom Team

Hi Rory,

Sorry for the delay in response.

We are looking into this.

Thanks,
Smit Keniya
Adobe Lightroom Team

Hi Rory,

Sorry for the delay in response.

We are looking into this.

Thanks,
Smit Keniya
Adobe Lightroom Team