P: Provide support for Linux

Sorry for the late reply, but no alternate software is going to help. All my existing stuff is still in Lightroom catalogs, and even *with* some conversion tool, I pretty much guarantee a conversion will not be without loss of at least some edits.

I have downloaded Mint Cinnamon to my iMac and will be testing it via Parallels or VMware over the next few weeks. More later.

Jack, Troy, I've been enjoying reading your posts.  Jack, I'd love to hear your feedback on Mint Cinnamon.  I've heard good things about it but haven't yet tried it myself.

I'll revisit the Linux options. My server runs SUSE 15 and I haven't recently tried anything graphically fancy with it. I'll try Mint Cinnamon as a VM on my iMac and see how it feels.

Thanks, Troy

I'm wondering what distros you are using and with what kind of LED monitors? At the computer shop I work for we sell Dell computers with Linux Mint Cinnamon using LCD and LED monitors and they work great and the displays are gorgeous!

If someone likes the Mac UI you can using Linux Mint Cinnamon with Compiz and make it look and work almost exactly the same as a Mac.

I gave up on Windows years ago and switched to Linux for our web server and OS X for almost everything else. Mac's UI is far better than anything I've seen on any Linux distro since Linux still has UI problems working with LED monitors. OS X is very Linux-like and that is one of its attractions; alsoI can get most of Linux's abilities by running it as a virtual machine on my Mac that has LR and Photoshop. So my short answer is no, I wouldn't pay for LR on Linux. Linux doesn't support the display quality that I need.

Thanks Nathan.  I was afraid we'd started moving off topic, so thanks for bringing us back.  Like you, I'm willing to install any mainstream distribution that Adobe might select.  

How about the rest of you?  Is Lightroom on Linux something you would pay for?  I'm hoping for "yes", and I've seen some likes.  But I would count Brian's response as a "no", and that's fine, too.  I welcome all responses.  Thanks!

I've installed Windows 10 dozens of times and I've upgraded many machines to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8.  If the upgrade fails for some reason, I'd recommend doing a clean installation of your existing OS and then trying to upgrade from there.  Once you have a legal copy of Windows 10 on the machine, you can wipe the hard drive and do a fresh installation and you won't need a license key on that machine any more.

That said, I'd still like to see Lightroom on Linux.  I paid for Lightroom, then I paid for an upgrade, then I paid for a Creative Cloud subscription.  But, I'm tired of using Windows just for the sake of Lightroom and I'm no longer doing photography professionally.  I've cancelled my subscription and I have no interest in subscribing again unless I can install it on Linux (I'm willing to install any mainstream distribution that would be supported).  

I don't expect that will happen.  I purchased an alternative from Corel called AfterShot Pro, because it has a Linux version, but unfortunately it crashes constantly, so that isn't a viable option.  I'm perfectly willing to pay for good software.  For now, I'll try to see if I can make do with the available options on Linux.

I disagree.  Here's an article from two days ago, in Forbes magazine.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/03/07/microsoft-windows-10-warning-crashes-boot-audio-slowdown-problems-upgrade-windows-10-free/#62fca1d9641f  This is just the latest of many articles and posts I've seen.  And I tried the free Win10 upgrade on one of my newest PCs and it failed, repeatedly.  It has issues.

There are no 'serious issues' with Win10, its a very clean and stable platform  and the upgrade to Win10 is still free