P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

Is there any chance Adobe will be configuring photoshop to run natively on linux platforms , from what I'm seeing around various forums and posts more and more users are migrating away from Microsoft and installing a linux based distro , I know you can run both with a dual boot system, but thats not the same. Further, I'm not interested in the workarounds to make it happen as there is always some sort of trade off which is not an option for me.

Regards John

Please offer consumers options to run Photoshop and LRc natively on GNU/Linux workstations.  

OS X has around ~8% of the desktop users worldwide and GNU/Linus is around 4%.  

It would garner much respect from the open source community.

Cheers,

Dave

Photoshop for Linux is required. This is how Steam Deck is currently, it is designed not only for games and could easily attract new subscribers.

We need linux support

After looking into relative performance of the same hardware under different software environments, I have to hope that Adobe phases out support for DirectX, as it is atrociously slow versus Vulkan and especially Metal. I have a friend with a Hackintosh that also runs Windows 11 and Linux (don't remember the distro), and under the Black Magic performance test doodad (my memory for names is very hazy), he gets about 1.7x the framerate for 8k under Vulkan (in Linux) and over 3x with Metal in MacOS. I'm considering trying to go the Hackintosh route for a triple-boot system, too. It's a ton of work, but Metal is amazing. Anyway, since DirectX is so terrible, and Vulkan is now on Windows systems too (I use it a lot), maybe that will be a kind of bridge to eventual (far future?) Linux support? I know that I said it was a non-starter earlier this year, but I do wonder...

Yep - (1 250 000) over 1 million user it's small group... It's only 30 milion USD form Photoshop only for Linux... By month.

@chiddekel,

So you know a million Linux users all wanting to get Photoshop for 30 bucks a month, when they are on a "for free" trip?

As has been said before, Adobe as a commercial company, would do porting Creative Cloud to Linux, if there were a chance to expand their business.

I love Linux, but it's just a non-starter, as has been pointed out many, many times. It makes no business sense to invest all the money, time, and effort to support such a tiny, yet disparate community. I hate MicroSoft and Apple. I've used both Macs (at work) and PCs (home and work) running Adobe programs since 1997. I've been building computers since 1994, and running Linux since 1998.

My coworker's 2017 27" iMac crashes several times a day and hasn't been able to be updated successfully since 2019. (I'm fairly sure this could be fixed by contacting Apple, but I guess we don't want to pay to do it...) The 2020 iMac never has problems, and the four Windows work systems I've built spanning 2013 to 2019 and the two home ones I currently have have never, ever crashed, so OS stability comparisons are moot. (Windows 10 still sucks. 11 sucks harder.)

Anyway, if someone can create an emulator for Linux that will support Photoshop, not the other way around, they'll just get sued into oblivion, so there is ultimately no real chance of ever - EVER - getting Linux support.

I look forward to checking in on this thread in another decade...

Adobe would likely need to start sponsoring a CMS.

https://www.argyllcms.com/

There is also the issue of architectural support. Intel? Qualcomm ARM? Apple? What about video cards? Just nVidia?

Finally, you have the zealots who would scream endlessly about Photoshop and all of its associated add-ons being closed-source and demanding absolute control over what runs and how.

Adobe would be fools to even consider this space.

According to what Chris Cox (former Photoshop engineer) once said, Linux has no proper color management support. That may have changed for all I know - but if that's still the case, the whole thing is a non-starter anyway. Photoshop's whole architecture revolves around functional color management.

Not going to get into semantics @Conrad_C - my point was not comparing CC/Photoshop vs every person on the planet.  Adobe is the largest software developer in terms of adoption and usage for design/photography/video editing. Show me another Imaging/Video/Content creation software with a higher user base and I'll concede. Whats niche is the industry itself but that is also the customer base for the company.

Back to the original discussion - if someone can prove to Adobe that there is a market with profits to be had/ROI on developing for Linux you'd think they would have done more in 13 years since this thread started.