P: Provide support for Linux

I'm not opposed to bugs and improvements being done on other platforms, I'm simply proposing them to port it also to Linux.

AFAIK Flatpak was born exactly to overcome all the different libraries problem on every Linux version and should work in a sandbox with all the needed libraries coming with the software. But I admit I don't know much about it apart from the fact it was designed exactly to overcome that problem.

Desktop usage is not limited to software developers, many other fields work on Linux, such as many parts of movies production, just ask compositors on which OS they work; many work on Linux in scientific environments...

also the reason why Linux is still a specialty os is simply because much commercial software is not on it. Things are changing though, if you look around there are many examples of professional softwares being ported to Linux in the last few years. 

COMPLETELY OPPOSED.

There is a long list of outstanding bugs in the current Lightroom Classic.  Recently Adobe has been leveraging AI to improve DEVELOP and this trend needs to continue.  Further other parts of Lightroom haven't been enhanced significantly in years, notably the DAM part of LIBRARY.  For example, there is no support for subseconds, even though it is part of the EXIF standard.  And Adobe really needs to add support for "fuzzy dates" for scanned photos where the exact date is usually not known. 

In MAP, the sublocation field really needs improvement.  The BOOK module also needs siginficant improvements in options for layouts and formats.  I can't speak to the other modules.

Flatpak solves nothing.  There is still the HUGE issue of testing, and there a simply too many differnet Linux distros to test, so which ones get supported? And many different versions of each distro.

Linux is pretty much a server  system, for which it is very important.  Desktop usage is mainly confined to software developers.  If Lightoom works under (some versions of ) Linux using Wine, why is that not sufficient?  Maybe some enterprising GitHUB contributor can write a native Linux installer for Lightroom.

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.