P: Provide support for Linux

Linux is nowadays used in many production environments, especially in video editing and movie production environments, such as for compositing software and non-linear montage and color grading. It is also gaining traction in the video gaming environments with projects such as Steam OS.

I think it would be a really smart from Adobe to port its products to Linux. 

Nowadays the problem of having to port for too many different distros is completely solved through the use of flatpak that is now supported by most Linux distros even through GUIs.

This is, I think, one of the things stopping many professionals from ditching Windows for many production environments.

I think a stopgap port shouldn't be too complex, there are lots of reports of Adobe software already working quite well through wine (for example  https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39856&iTestingId=113736 ). I think shipping out pre-made flatpak packages with wine support would be pretty user friendly and probably mostly working for

many creative cloud products.

A project such as proton for steamOS but for Adobe software would be totally amazing 🙂

Linux is nowadays used in many production environments, especially in video editing and movie production environments. It is also gaining traction in the video gaming environments with projects such as Steam OS.

I think it would be a really smart from Adobe to port its products to Linux. Especially in regard to Lightroom.

This is, I think, one of the things stopping many users from ditching Windows for many professionals.

As a stopgap there are more and more reports of workaround letting Lightroom work on Linux through the use of the wine software, which should allow porting it to Linux with minimal effort, as the thing that is currently stopping users from using it on Linux it's actually the installer being unable to run, while the software apparently works quite well when manually extacted:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39856&iTestingId=113736

Rather than spend a ton of money to add Linux support, which would benefit only a small minority of customers I would strongly prefer that Adobe use that money to fix long-standing bugs in Windows/MacOS Lightroom.

Just wanted to chime in and upvote this thread. I'm a photographer shooting on Leica SL2-S and would jump to Linux from Windows entirely if Lightroom, Photoshop, or even Camera RAW was available for Linux. As it stands now I can only use Linux for messing around being a nerd and cannot use it for real work.

Please add support for Linux either native or via Wine. 

Please add the Linux operating sytem as a supported platform.

Adobe apps are available already using WINE.  I don’t think the LINUX/Photoshop/Lightroom user base is large enough to support a complete recompile for LINUX. 

Please add support for Linux operating system.

My thoughts exaclty. I read @dantull's answer. Amongst professionals there is an unwillingnes to use Linux exactly because software like Adobe's is not available for Linux. The OS had matured enought and keeps improving, so if you bring the software, people will have many more reasons to use Linux.

Indeed there are too many distributions and market segmentation, but software can be designed to be distro-independent. A portion of the port seems to be already complete (?)

Please help make this happen!

pegmonkey: Have you tried the "denoise (profiled)" in Darktable? For my Fujifilm RAW files, it performs incredibly well. Much better than LR7.