P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

Can I add a vote to this? I'd love to run Photoshop on my linux box, it would cut down on the switching between my machines.

Hello,

If theres something I would love to use on my Linux machine it is the Adobe Suite. A large amount of us, the linux users, are involved with the web technologies and videogames. You may understand that in the process of development we need some tools for our graphical content, and the Adobe Suite excels for this kind of work.

As many other people, I stopped using Windows long time ago - more than 2 years -. I have a Mac and a Linux. The only great benefit I see from using the Mac, it is because there are more programs than on Linux. For the rest, even the terminal and the Graphical UI are very similar.

That said I end up suggesting you to port your Adobe programs for Linux. By doing it, I am sure the market share will really increment and then you could earn a lot of money.

Think of Linux. It is free so anyone can use it. Ubuntu for example is pretty straightforward to use, and Windows for example has lots of problems with viruses.

I am sure you use Linux in your servers - unless you have a deal with Microsoft in which case it all is self explanatory. Give us all the joy of having great software on this great OS ecosystem of Linux.

meaning what, exactly???

11 year and not support, lol

We as a company install and support Linux for our customers. One of our oldest client is a magazine publisher, whose whole infrastructure runs on linux. only for proof checking images they have a windows box in a vm for photoshop. They sure would pay for a photoshop on linux license, but not for windows os.
So please adobe people port PS to linux and cash in...

I'm also photographer from Russia, and using Darktable/Rawtherapee/Aftershot for editing RAW files. But if Adobe will do Lightroom and Photoshop for Linux, its will be very cool.
Shut up, and take my money 🙂

You are right ofcourse, I remember I used clipping masks a lot when exporting eps files for publishers. Because I don't do a lot of desktop publishing anymore I can do without Photoshop and Illustrator. Gimp took me a while in getting used to it, and except some things I miss, like simply Ctrl-click on a layer with transparency to select the object in that layer, clicking the mask tool and voila..., I even like working with Gimp more than I did with Photoshop.

By the way, I only use Aftershot Pro for raw converting, but since I use it, I barely touch Gimp. And when I have to, I can click on External Editor to open Gimp and there I can edit the image as a tif image. The only thing is that Gimp can't handle 16 and 32 bit images just yet, only the new development version and upcoming version 2.9.

So you are absolutely right about the advantages of Photoshop and Illustrator. I just coped and got used to the current limitations, which gave me one big win: I don't have to deal with the frustrations of working with Windows or Apple ;).

I'm going to have to take a look at Aftershot Pro. Being that I'm a long time Photoshop user (and paid Adobe a lot of money for all the upgrades over the years), I've really felt like moving away from it is only worth it if there's something that is at least as good. My experience with Gimp was that it wasn't. Even something like a clipping mask, which is easy in PS is just not possible with Gimp (or it wasn't the last time I tried). I use clipping masks a lot, so it's a must have feature for me.

Same thing goes for Illustrator. I haven't tried Inkscape, but I will. I can tell you one thing for sure, if Adobe doesn't make native Linux versions of their software, I will never be there customer again. I may someday be forced to use Gimp. I moved away from other operating systems a couple years ago, and with the exception of Photoshop and Illustrator, everything else I need is available for Linux. Most of it for free, as you know. I'm never going back to Windows or Mac (unless I'm paid a lot to do it).

@ Oscar: and Macs are overpriced... and annoying and egocentric and ugly (imho). Currently I'm using Aftershot Pro and Gimp which work very well for me as a photographer. As a webdesigner I'm using Inkscape + Gimp, and that combination also works for me. Using a Linux convertor I can even deliver cmyk files to a print service or publisher, never had any complaints.