P: Provide support for Linux

Would you pay for Lightroom on Linux?  I would!  If you would too, please vote.

It would be great if Adobe made Lightroom available on some (any) version of Linux.  My wife has been happily using Lightroom on Windows 7, but Windows 7 is no longer supported and from what I've seen Windows 10 has serious issues.  There are many high-quality and stable Linux distributions with great user interfaces available today.  I suspect that part of the problem is an assumed small user base, with Windows dominating for desktop operating systems.  Well with Windows 10 the mess that it is, more people will be looking for options, and Linux just makes sense.  Another perception issue is the idea that people who use Linux don't want to pay for software.  And that may be true for many Linux users, but Lightroom users are different.  Lighroom users are willing to pay for quality software, and that will stay true regardless of what operating system it is running on.

Adobe, people have been asking about this for at least 9 years now.  The recent end of Windows 7, along with the maturity of many of the Linux distributions, makes now a great time to make this happen.

Thanks!

A lot of my LrControl plug-in customers are also complaining about this. I want to help them, but I have to disappoint them. All I can say is maybe Adobe will fix it someday.

Windows has a Linux kernel inside, OS X a fragment of bsd. Both share a lot of resources with linux family.

Win 98 no. Mac OS 9 no. However, adobe has versions of PS since Ppc and dos based 32 bit platforms. Linux is retrocompatible a lot. Adobe no.

I think that soon it will only be ios /wincore compatible. Sorry Thomas Knoll, but I dislike to process image in a “aleatory-key based” 2 year obsolete 7” screen.

Bye, I’m going to call a friend by smart TV 32” XD

Otoh, if they can get it to compile for macOS, they are halfway there. MacOS is (loosely) based off linux/unix of some kind, and is POSIX compliant. Since any linux disto is also POSIX compliant, the core codebase should cross-compile without much extra effort.

And since the GUI is it's own little framework, that too shouldn't pose too much of a problem.

So indeed, Adobe is just not capable. But mostly unwilling.

I mean the reality of the problem is that adobe's code base is not stable enough to port to a new OS. They can barely get light room to function adequately on PC, porting to linux would be a bad decision on their part sadly.

If you need to edit video, use davinci resolve. It's better and more efficient anyhow.
Photoshop and light room have a wide number of alternatives. Might want to petition luminar for Linux support instead, they'll also be releasing their DAM for luminar soon as well. Serif, the company who makes Affinity would also be a good company to ask.

Adobe is just not capable.

The OS usage percentages are normally obtained from internet login data, not sales so I think the 2% is probably close.  The relatively few people I know that use Linux want free software anyway so that is an additional reason for Adobe to not support Linux.

2% is debatable. It could actually be much higher. It's hard to track because it's not based on sales.

Do yo really expect Adobe drop macOS that has a 10% market share but add support for Linux that has a 2% market share.

Kde has label and keywords feature in all environment. brfs format stores it eficient and securely. Zfs beats all ideas a mac/win user can have over a filesystem. This is cause i switched completely to freeBSD. memory caching, log caching, data caching, 1 nvme and 32G ram speed up all transactions to
100-500% (it depends is the storage volume is a raid-ssd or single Hdd, of course)

Lightroom replacements: darktable, rawtherapee, darklight... for batch processing imagemagick beats all know software and is integrated completely in the system.
PS: Krita. Gimp is still crazy module GUI with thousand of panels flying like bees.
Premiere: Davinci
AE: Davinci, and blender
illustrator: Krita, Inkscape

Maya, Openshot, kdenlive... a lot of really powerful software

tools for compress: the google algorithm Gueztli + mozpjeg can compress a 100% qual jpg sized in 1M to a 300kb image without any visual lossless.

Advanced users: I reccomend FreeBDS with root in zfs and own compiled kernel. I love Debian too.
Occasional users: Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, (formatted with LVM or zfs)
noobs: Ubuntu studio, Fedora design suite, Mint or manjaro

Adobe don't loose the train! Forget macintosh, is falling in the ios abysm. Microsoft, nvidia, intel and GNU-Linux/BSD are alling at last!

Try Rawtherapee 😉 . Darktable is full of bugs and quite slower. But... masks. Rawtherapee need to implement that.