P: Provide support for Linux

I have very very poor performance on a VM with VirtualBox. The local editing is so slow that it is unusable (I have a D800 so the RAW is large). Also printing is impossible, my 3880 prints 2 lines every 20 seconds or so.

This is available now! 2-3 years ago i've transferred my windows from dual bot to virtual machine using VirtualBox on top of my ubuntu machine with i7 and 16G ram. I run lightroom on it without any problems with quite good performance.

But of course, I would love to see native linux version

The new version of Rawtherapee is also very impressive !

With the cloud and new way to deal with customers (I know Lr is still available without the cloud, but for how much longer?) trying to lock them in a pay-per-month-or-you-loose-your-work model better moving away from Adobe product anyway at this stage.

I've been one of many people asking for a Lr on GNU/Linux (even ready to pay twice the price if necessary) but now even if Lr for GNU/Linux sees light I'm not even sure to buy it for the above reasons. I'm a quite happy user of darktable which impress me every day (and yes I'm an quite experimented user of Lr).

A WINE friendly version?
I would never go for that. A fully supported version for Linux. As long as that is not available, it will be a dual boot or an extra computer specially Lightroom e.a.
A sub-optimal, inefficient and costly solution. Maye virtualization will bring a workable solution in the future...

I am a computer administrator and work at a company with over 120 employees. We have converted almost all of the computers at company X to Linux based distributions. Employees have asked for me to, and I have converted several of their home computers to Linux. (Most are Debian Based (Ubuntu / Mint) and a few CentOS). I even do some moonlighting with professional photographers setting up FreeNAS file servers. They are eager to move to Linux for the speed and cost and some are trying to use OSALTs like digiKam.

Steam has woken up and now Microsoft even offers a Linux based Office Suite. If Adobe doesn't cater to a wider customer base, then someone else will. Adobe doesn't necessarily need to make a full blown Linux version, but perhaps a more WINE friendly one.

From what I understand Adobes attitude to their products on Linux is a little like the chicken or the egg, saying that people that want it, have it, so they will not buy the Linux version. I want it and have bought it but never again while this mindset continues, the last version of Photoshop I upgraded was CS3 and have not upgraded since as no Linux version exists (my first PS purchase was was way back in the early 90's with version 3.0).

I now want to upgrade my version of Lightroom but by doing so technically hinders the chance of the Linux version which I require, so what are my options? Buy the Windows version and slap myself in the face? Or acquire it by other means and pay for the Linux version when it becomes available?

ps. I am not going to slap myself in the face

Yep, Pascal. It is still listed. But there was no serious update for about year. Just few bugfixes, few cams were added and attempt to implement OpenCL was undertaken. You can waste money on it for sure, as I did last year. But it is dead in fact.

AfterShot from Corel discontinued???? Where is this information coming from? It is still listed in Corel web site? Just curious...

This is also darktable now: http://www.darktable.org

There is not a really good photo management program in Linux. The only one which is acceptable is AfterShot from Corel, but looks like they discontinued the product.
In the other hand, I really need to use Linux in my work and having a second machine or a dual boot option it is not practical.