P: Provide support for Linux

Just look at how much demand there is for Linux versions. Why is it still not here? Every new version of anything comes with an oppertunity to build it for Linux as well (natively, not crap solutions like wine), and every time, we are dissappointed.

Why is Adobe so consistently ignoring Linux? Most of the creative suite is already cross-platform between Windows and OSX, and if it's written well (one should hope for such prices) recompiling things to Linux should be dead-simple.

So I can run Linux on my laptop and be done with Windows. Photoshop and Lightroom (and on my desktop, Illustrator) is literally the only software to keep me from switching.

You've already got an OSX version, and since OSX has components ripped from linux, you're probably already halfway. The UI for both programs is completely custom-built, so it's not like you need to rebuild that either. You're basically a recompile away 😉

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.