P: Provide support for Linux

Another vote for Linux Lightroom. I'd pay.

What is the status for current Lightroom CC 2015 ? Last time I tried the interface refresh was kinda buggy.

Did not get the future tense, did you?

With cloud, html5, etc. the trend is obvious. In the future, most of the computing for your average Joe (yourself) will be performed on cloud servers somewhere, rather than on a desktop/wearable device at home. The home device will be just a glorified display. At that point it matters how many servers run on Linux and how many run on anything else.

People are already moving to Linux family. Chrome OS is built on Linux. Same as Android. OS X is built on BSD, which is built on UNIX.

ROFL all you want.

Again, this discussion is pointless. I'm a paying customer. I want pro-grade photo editing software on Linux. The rest doesn't interest me.

".....First to the ridiculous claim, that Linux has 2% market share. As PeterJot above pointed out, this only works for desktops...."

LOL...

and who would be using LR on these linux servers or smartphones.... or ...lol.... supercomputers?? :)

sorry but that argumentation makes no sense when we talk about how profitable a linux port would be for adobe.

LR is used on desktops.... not smartphones or server farms.

"...With crappy windows quality, it's only matter of time when people will start moving to linux family...."

i keep hearing that since IBM dropped the ball on OS/2.
"wait just a few years and linux will dominate everything... it ́s the next big thing."

dreams... nothing but dreams. :)

i mean it is FREE and still next to nobody is touching it on the desktop.
that tells you that something is wrong with linux as a desktop OS (no it is not lack of PR).

without going to deep into that topic.

personally i don ́t have an aversion against linux.
in the 90s i used it for my BBS system (first OS/2 then linux) because windows could not handle the multitasking of the dozend tools i had running.

but there is so much wrong with linux as an average joe desktop system. i don ́t even know where to start.

i know computer savy people who WANT to like linux.
but they simply hate it.
they install new distributions 2 times a year... only to go back to windows or OS X after a few weeks.

"... When all the computing is performed in the cloud and home devices have become just graphical front ends "

yeah well..... lets hope that will not happen.
at least not until we all have 10 gigabit internet.

The OP comment sums the common misconceptions pretty neatly.

First to the ridiculous claim, that Linux has 2% market share. As PeterJot above pointed out, this only works for desktops. In servers, power computing etc. it's a completely different story. Not only Linux owns 70+% of server market space, Linux servers have considerably higher uptime and fail less frequently, than "alternatives". When all the computing is performed in the cloud and home devices have become just graphical front ends with high network bandwidth, guess what OS will the server processing your video/photograph editing run on? That's right, Linux. Why? Because Linux/UNIX it's the most stable and power efficient OS ever invented. So why not starting to develop for the future already? The short-sighted attitude of Adobe astounds me.

The naysayers keep spinning the same story ad nauseam. Linux has too small market share, Linux users are budget conscious et cetera et cetera.

Eventually, it doesn't matter. I don't care. I know it's nonsense and I know what I want. I'm a paying customer and to be honest, compared to my cameras, lens lineup and all the computers I own, software license fees are peanuts on the fringe of statistical error. So why wouldn't I pay for them?

I'm a paying customer and I want all the tools I am used to on Linux. Why? Because. And I care naught about what self-proclaimed market share analysts around here have to say in support of development laziness and customer feedback neglect on the part of Adobe. It won't change what I want.

The very existence of this thread and the fact the discussion keeps coming back to it over and over again proves my point. The moment I have viable alternatives elsewhere I'm dumping Adobe and all their glorious products the same way I dumped Microsoft and all their lousy products. I will not push my money to somebody who neglects my customer's wishes, if I have a choice.

I agree with martijn Saly. I only use windows 7 for lightroom, and i have lot of troubles with this system. I heard from many people, that windows10 is not stable now, not to mention infamous windows8.

Maybe linux share is 2%, but only on desktop. Total market share of linux on all devices (phones, tablets, desktops, laptops) is 50%+ - as android is pure linux.In servers workstations, linux has something like 70%. on supercomputers market linux share is like 99%, and windows 0%. With crappy windows quality, it's only matter of time when people will start moving to linux family.

Look at Steam, many new games are avalable on linux now, and all will be in the near future. One of the last bastions of windows domination is crushing now. I've bought myself yesterday GRID autosport yesterday, it's running great on my ubuntu machine!

I know that Adobe always have avarse to linux. But times are changing, wake up Adobe!!

You're making a mistake there. The market share may well be so low because Adobe products aren't available in the first place. A big part of the reason I'm on Windows is because of Lightroom and Photoshop.

Adding a feature that noone wants is not the same thing. I would happily do away with face recognition, address lookup and the Mobile Lightroom spam, but they're there for you to use or ignore. A version of Lightroom for Linux users is NOT there for you to use or ignore.

How many linux users are Lightroom users: 0

Those who manage to run it through Wine (which is a disgustingly horrible workaround), will not magically register as linux users, but as Windows users.

Currently it's a classic chicken-and-egg problem, but it can ONLY start with Adobe, not with the userbase.

some people were complaining (very noisy) about adobe wasting time on FACE RECOGNITION or the MAP MODULE... because they say it is not used by many.

now some of these people want linux support.. rotfl.
hypocrites....

linux has less than 2% marketshare... and how many linux users are lightroom users?

I agree with Martijn. A friend, for example, sees me working on my Linux pc and really would like to switch. The only thing that is keeping him from doing so is the fact that he is so used to using Photoshop and Lightroom and doesn't want to learn working with Gimp or one of the other raw converter. If Adobe would port LR to Linux this would probably mean that all people who are now using Darktable, Lightzone or RawTherapee would buy LR, at least to have it available to them. And a lot of potential Linux users would really switch. They only need to have a push. But, if Adobe has made secret agreements with Windows and Apple or some other software running on these platforms, never to port their software to Linux, than we can wait forever... 😞

1,5% may not seem like much, but Adobe has a HUGE userbase, making those 1,5% count into the tens of thousands in potential. Not right now of course, since Linux is not supported, but if it were, I think it may give Linux (and Adobe) a small boost. For many people, it is the one thing that makes them stuck with Windows, or move over to OSX in an act of desperation.

LR Mobile is a joke, and you (as a "champ") should know it. But seeing how LR is such an incredible CPU and memory hog, it's understandable (for now) that the mobile version is crippled.