P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

Adobe CC (creative cloud) to be available on Linux.

What someone is being confused about here is that Windows 10 (once installed as a free upgrade) forces the user to receive security updates. There's no way to disable the automatic security updates in Windows 10.

However, there is no forced upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10.

I did, and couldn't find anything. All I found were articles on how to force Windows 7 to update to Windows 10 (not sure why there would be articles on how to do that if Windows 7 is forced to be upgraded to Windows 10 anyway), and how to disable forced updates from Windows 10 (i.e. how to prevent additional updates after you've already installed Windows 10). I didn't see anything about there being a forced update from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

Google on forced windows updates & upgrade--I have screen shots (back home--out travelling for the week).


-ml

@7408387 Lankeit I'm pretty sure Windows 7 is not being forced to upgrade to 10. Do you have any source for this?

Windows 10 changes things... Forced upgrades and reboots remind one more of the failed communist era versus a progressively improving technology. As an aside, forced upgrades and reboots are also not sustainable--especially in the enterprise business where backwards compatibility is key. Ergo, Mircrosoft just f**d itself in a very hard way.

While Windows will surely become deprecated by its own volition, the question to have Adobe products on Linux becomes more relevant. I could make-do with a VM optimized version of Adobe CC, but only if it ran under XP as Windows 7 is being forced by Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 10. If XP support is not possible, then let's stop suggesting VM as a solution--as it is simply not realistic.

All of my servers are Linux already. They are integrated into AD and function just fine. I have a couple of steps left to go before decom'ing all of my remaining windows servers, but that's really neither here nor there. More importantly, I would love to drop Windows on the desktop, but things like Photoshop really stop me.

Adobe has a chance right now to seize on the moment before it becomes a tidal wave.

-ml

We have no way of knowing whether it would be cheaper or take longer to update GIMP or port PS.

But PS Linux support has been requested for many years, so I would be surprised if Adobe will ever implement support. Even if the donations didn't get GIMP up to the level of doing everything that PS can, they might make it 'good enough' for your uses. Whereas telling Adobe that you want it for Linux and are willing to pay has no effect.

It is my understanding that GIMP also plans to implement node based editing (effectively the history of edits are recorded rather than the results of edits), which could actually put it ahead of Photoshop.

because even if you poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the GIMP project, it would still take several years to get it to where photoshop already is at. adobe i bet could port this in 6 months to a year.

While I would like PS for Linux, it seems clear to me there is not a large enough market for it. If so many people are willing to pay for it, why don't they just donate to hire programmers to work on GIMP instead?