P: Provide support for Linux

Dan, I think part of that is because gamers have a lot of extra time on their hands. They will take the time to fill out feedback forms and post messages on lists and forums because they want to PLAY THEIR GAMES on Linux! They also don't mind trying stuff and filling out and sending in confusing bug reports to help the development process, etc. You don't typically see business people spending the time doing this because their time is valuable. They just want software that will work and let them get their work done as quickly and efficiently as possible. They also find filling out bug reports horribly confusing, especially when they don't understand all the terminology or even where to begin to describe what they are experiencing. It's another reason why more people aren't switching to Linux in general. It's radically different than Windows and there is a learning curve. Another reason they don't switch to Mac, for that matter (besides Mac being so expensive). I use Linux as my primary operating system. However, I have to keep a Windows 7 virtual machine just to run three programs because they won't run in Linux. iTunes, Corel Graphics Suite, and Lightroom. If it weren't for those I could drop Windows like a bad habit. I most especially want to get Lightroom working in Linux! As it stands now I shoot tethered to my laptop using Entangle and then later transfer the images where I want them saved and load them into Lightroom. I'd rather skip the extra step, though.

There are some decent photo management programs available in Linux. Picasa, digiKam, Shotwell, F-Spot, Darktable, etc.. You can even do tethered shooting with Entangle, which works great and is fast! But, there just isn't anything that does it all in one program as cleanly and efficiently as Lightroom. Darktable is trying, but it just isn't as polished. It's just not the same or as user friendly (if an Adobe product can be called user friendly) as Lightroom. We really just need a Linux version of Lightroom or good support for it in Wine.

I believe the claim, that Linux is too small a market is outdated. Steam believes otherwise and video games are a market orders of magnitude larger, than Photo editing software. Time to acknowledge that, maybe?

Lightroom is the only thing, that anchors me to Windows.

Until such time as Adobe decides to release a GNU/Linux version of Lightroom, some folks have found ways to make Lightroom work with Wine. Others have it running in a Windows VM under Linux.
I, too, wish they would create a Linux version, even if I had to buy it again, I'd give serious thought to doing so.

http://www.darktable.org/
http://lightzoneproject.org/

I would buy Elements for Linux, too.

Lightroom is a great software, probalbly the best with darktable. Why there is no version for GNU/Linux ? I cannot buy it without linux version

arent you guys embarrassed yet? This is getting absurd. Make a linux version already.

Lightroom 4.4 on WINE.
Here we go. (BTW, I will continue to add to this single post as my working log.)
WARNING: DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT I DO HERE ELSE YOU WILL PROBABLY BREAK YOUR SYSTEM UNLESS YOU ARE A VERY BRAVE SOUL!

...you have been warned. I will mark this thread s_lved when I believe I have found a viable solution. Some assumptions are: 1) Clean Install 2) Inexperienced Linux user install.

Base System:
HP Pavilion DV-7 3085DX
RAM: 6 GB
Graphics: GeForce GT 230M 1024 MB
Kernel: 3.2.0-52-generic x64
Distro: Linux Mint 13 (maya) 64 bit
Graphics Driver: NVIDIA binary v 319.32
Note: Installing clean version of mint 13 x64 in chroot environment. (Won't mess up my system but will expose OS to native hardware).

Do some updates:
"sudo apt-get update"
"sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
(Answer "N" when asked while updating).
Reboot your computer.

Let's clear out all of the old packages.
"sudo apt-get clean
If you have an Intel based processor, I recommend installing intel-microcode.
"sudo apt-get install intel-microcode"
Now we are going to add the wine ppa so we have the latest version of WINE.
"sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa"
"sudo apt-get update"
"sudo apt-get install wine1.6" (be sure to agree to the EULA else fonts will be jacked.)

Update: Running into some .net issues. As soon as I get through this, I will post my results. Seems Adobe uses many different frameworks for LR.

Personnally I have abandonned Lightroom. I now use digikam? If one day there is a lightroom for linux I will consider it, but for now it's bye bye adobe.