P: Provide support for Linux

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?

And a demonstrable market for professional software on Linux would go farther toward making it happen then votes on a forum.

As your comment may imply you are aware, Edge and Lightroom do share a very small piece of the same software DNA. Unfortunately not enough to amount to much in the way of shared porting costs, though.

DT