P: Provide support for Linux

Would love to have LR on Linux, would order it immediately if it worked on the OS of my choice. Currently the Corel's ASP seems to be the only viable solution.

Now that adobe decided to not support windows xp, for lightroom 4, there are a lot of users out there who detest vista and windows 7, who would rather run linux than windows 7. So please please give us linux support.

Windows 7 is awful.

It should not be much of a port, from OS X, to linux.

Thanks!
Don

As a happy user of Corel's ASP (successor to Bibble), provided ASP supports your camera, come on in, the water's lovely!

I now usethe mac version. Being a Unix user, it was the best solution for me. However the evolution of Mac OS X toward a closed environment strictly controlled by the hardware vendor does not please me at all. So my next machine has few chances of being a mac, nor a windows.

Should I wait for a linux version of lightroom, or should I buy Bibble instead of lightroom 4, in order to be able to work on linux ?

You probably won't get an answer to that. Accounting/consulting are unlikely to be representative of Adobe's market though - unlike publishing and the various "creative" industries.

Well, the consulting firms had an incredible menagerie of software, since they had to be able to provide services in their clients' toolsets. Which suggests that their clients didn't use LR or PS in the mainstream, either.

The question I was really asking the employees in this thread was: what percentage of the sales for LR and PS were known to have gone to corporates, since Chris Cox says that Adobe are canvassing companies as well as induhviduals.

Not so strange, given they were accounting and consulting firms?

Well, as regards surveying Linux users, I can understand that this activity is one of the raisons d'etre of this thread. I would, on the other hand, say that it was quite hard to find. In fact, by the time Google pointed it out to me, I had already paid for a competitor product.

What I can't really connect to is the interest in companies that use Linux. In how many companies (whatever their standard Desktop platform), would LR and PS be part of the standard software loadset? That wouldn't have been the case in either of the major accounting and consulting firms in which I used to work.

By surveying Linux users and companies that use Linux, and asking them.

I am not a professional photographer so perhaps my vote - and the fact that I was prepared to pay for Bibble 5 Pro, and an upgrade to the new Corel Aftershot Pro - does not count.

On the other hand, I did earn my living for 40 years by being able to reason in a logical fashion. How can Adobe prove, sorry: demonstrate, whether there is or is not a market for this software on Linux, other than by dipping its toe in the water?