P: Provide support for Linux

It's no problem of price of License. It's a strategy. Corel go to Linux. It's a philosophy of company. If company is in Linux Foundation but no offer Software for that Operative System. Why is there?

Linux sure is not rentable but for Adobe is a Strategy if have not the strategy never could be a market. The opportunities is not only view the market share. Maybe Windows has a lot but the most is using a pirate software when maybe in Linux that 2% buy the Licence.

Is superficial say that all people is equal no exist comparative in a number of percentage of market share more when a Company is big than Adobe.

I doubt that even if Linux users wanted to pay double the price that they would pay for Windows and/or Mac, that it would be a good business decision for Adobe.

I think the larger issue here is that Linux has very poor desktop/laptop usage.  Certainly the MacOS market size is much bigger, to say nothing of the Windows market size.

That's the reality.

@7437430 and @pascal7211960. I agree with both of you. Darktable is great in that is has many modules and options that LR lacks and is capable of producing very good images, but LR gives better results overall and is much quicker and easier to use. I'm a professional photographer and have been using/testing Darktable for about 3 years now, but still use LR for my regular work. I'm a Linux user but have a seperate pc just for LR. The LR colors and 'crisp' images (as mentioned by Troy) are still better and almost instant when opening an image. Images opened in LR need very little adjustment, and in 99% of all cases the tools in LR, using local adjustments and gradient tool) almost always give me the result I want and the images are very 'touchable', as in real, close. For now I have just renewed my subscription of LR for another year. It gives me very good images in almost no time, thus gives me more time to take new pictures instead of time behind the computer. And yes, I have experimented a lot with DT and have many presets. So I keep following DT and in my heart I have a big desire to only use DT, but still prefer LR.

It always difficult to compare, but I would list the following features that you don't have in Lr and where you need Photoshop:

- Liquify module (moving pixel around) non descructive

- Retouch module based on wavelet scales

- Parametric masks (even if I think Lr added this recently) it is far more versatile in dt with more way to select pixels

- Mixing drawn masks together and possibly with parametric masks

- The filmic & tone equalizer module in linear RGB are a must

- The contrast equalizer again based on wavelet scales

- The Negadoctor module to handle san of film negatives

- And probably many more...

Some of those modules are unique to dt like Filmic & Tone Equalizer.

And yes, Lr is a probably easier to use but again some actions require Photoshop (which is far more difficult to master). With dt you can do lot more directly on the RAW, all this is non destructive and does not break the workflow.

And don't take my word for it, you can download and test all this for free.

will_de-jong, Mint Cinnamon (which is a Debian based distro) is excellent and beautiful looking and out customers using it really like it.

In response to jack_nilles, it sounds like he is running SUSE which, I believe, is a Red hat distro. 

I've tried both and found I like Debian based distros better. So I tend to stick more with Ubuntu/Mint. It's more user friendly and seems to have broader compatibility with different hardware.

pascal_obry, Darktable is nice, but I'm not sure it is necessarily superior to Lightroom.....yet.

Most people who have used it say the images tend to process a little darker than Lightroom and in some cases not quite as crisp. They also say Lightroom is still a little more user friendly inn its layout and tools. In what ways do you find Darktable more superior? I'm really curious. 

I literally made a post to request Linux support for Adobe software on this forum on 28 September but moderators/Adobe removed it without notice(on my profile you can see I have 1 post(s) but it's nowhere to be found).

Maybe because I've included a quote from when Adobe joined the Linux foundation in 2008 and that it would be a natural step for them to include Linux as an environment:

“Adobe’s decision to join the LF is a natural extension of its commitment to open standards and open source, which demonstrates its leadership and foresight in the software industry,”

I have no idea. But anyways I'll vote for my Linux support on this thread then.

@11647309 What is the Source? Market Share about what? How of Windows pay or use pirate or why from Linux pay or use pirate software?

The question is not all see that information.

And anyway darktable is far more superior at this time so you can all dump Lr for something better. No need to beg Adobe which has always shown some hate (see Flash story for example) for Linux.

If Adobe can make money porting to Linux I'm sure they would, but with the current market share of less than 1% it's unlikely especially since the development effort is likely more rather than less due to all the flavors of Linux, and imagine all the driver issues where not using the GPU for many things causes excessive slowness:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

For the desktop-specific market share, Linux is less than 2%.