P: Provide support for Linux

Does anyone acknowledge bug reports? Is there anyone from Adobe listening? I note that the SDK hasn't been updated for quite some time event though new capabilities have been added to Lightroom. Seems there should have been plenty of opportunities to address some of the many SDK bugs.

Forget the argument about Linux users not paying.

I am paying for PS and LR for years. Windows to Mac transition happened ~8 years ago (if you are in software for 20 years you know why), Mac to Linux transition is in progress (AAPL hardware is not powerful enough and generally overpriced).

I want to continue to pay for Adobe products. I will run LR and PS via Wine/VM or dual boot until I learn enough about alternative tools RawTherapee/Dark Table/Gimp/Inkscape/... to get the job done on a decent quality level.

If you guys at Adobe don't get together until then,... you are out. Forever.

Good luck.

Sorry, yes, I guess I didn't clear that up properly.

Nevertheless, Adobe->Linux would be one of the few "big ones" for folks to move to Linux. What's to gain for Adobe? That's the question. Fame, at least. And positive reviews.

Ok ok, sorry but it is difficult to follow 🙂 You said: "for other popular commercial software, like Photoshop->GIMP, I can't imagine it being very good even without ever touching it, sorry to say." and now "I do use GIMP", so you can imagine that I'm confused 🙂

No, I do use GIMP from time to time when Photoshop and I don't understand each other. But as for Linux, yeah, the software I use isn't available for it so I'm not a fulltime user. But I do like Linux and all its quircks, and Lightroom happens to be one of the last few pieces of software still not available for it.

So no, not a troll, perhaps a realist of some sort 😉

I have also written a letter to Adobe to create their own Creative OS based on Linux. Something like the developers at Valve did with Steam. In the meanwhile they can crate a client like Steam that would run on Linux. I think thy can make a great deal of money by having a store and create micro transactions like so many other companies have done. There can be plugins, presets and tools, etc. Although i do like Windows 10, I would switch to Linux full-time if Adobe was offered. It is the chicken and egg dilema. Adobe claims there are not enough users of Linux platforms, but this is due to the lack of mainstream software that people are familiar with. If that changes, i think many would prefer to install a free OS without the need of anti-virus software like Chrome OS. We'll see how the future holds out.

Interesting, you haven't looked at GIMP nor darktable. You are using Windows, so why are you hanging around on a Linux thread? Looks just as a troll to me 🙂 If you don't like/want a Linux port, that's just fine but please let's keep this thread focused.

Depends on what you want to do with a picture. I myself have gotten used to Gimp after working with PS for years at a design company. Agreed, it took some time and some functions are not as good as in PS, like the health brush, text and layer management, but for the rest I've begun to like it even more than PS. And it does all I need.

Like I said, I'm looking at those who claim GIMP as an alternative for Photoshop, which it isn't by a very very long shot. I guess I'll give darktable a go, if it runs on Windows 😉

darktable has a minimal Lr import. All the tags are imported and some of the development too but that's impossible to have 100% identical result. It is better than nothing... I went through this, it saves me lot of time.

Well, I've given Lr courses and was a "power" user of many Lr features. I can tell you that I have been able to develop my pictures as I wanted in dt. Again all is different, you need time to grasp such big software but for sure there is lot of power on darktable.

Now, if you don't want to change your habits stays in Lr. But that's true for everything, some people can survive some changes...

And now the amazing part you "can't imagine... but never touched it", seriously? This is free software stop guessing try it! Better than spreading FUD 🙂

And again there is professional photographers using dt, it can't be that bad.