P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

Oh, I intend too. I've been waiting patiently. Steam on linux is icing on my cake. Gauging the support of linux through steam is a good step. A kickstarter or indiegogo campaign lets users directly put their money where their mouth is and should be very attractive to Adobe since they would not have to pay for the development themselves.

If you want to show support for Linux, and prove that it is a platform that Adobe can succeed on with products like Photoshop, support Steam for Linux! If Adobe sees that Steam is successful and profitable, perhaps they will be convinced that Photoshop could succeed as well.

Valve's Linux blog:
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

Lack of photoshop on linux is the only thing keeping me on windows at this point. Everything else I want is already there. Adobe, why not start a kickstarter or indiegogo campaign to fund a port? It woud be a much more accurate indicator of the community than any market research and you don't have to start or pay for development until you get the dollar amount you set. Just my 2 cents.

I have my own web agency and would love if you ported photoshop to linux.

We are moving from Windows to ubuntu..we are group of graphic desiger extensive users of adobe product. I hope adobe will think porting its software to Linux environment...

Quote: » But all I keep seeing is this Chris Cox employee shooting down the idea based on market research.«
Check out Photoshop’s splash screen to verify he is an employee who probably knows very well what he is talking about when he talks Photoshop.
I guess some of his colleagues may not be inclined to bother and communicate with so many consumers directly, but that he takes the time to (again and again) comment on this issue seems rather accommodating of him.

I've been waiting for years for Photoshop and now Lightroom to come to Linux. But all I keep seeing is this Chris Cox employee shooting down the idea based on market research. Dan Tull seems to make a good point that in looking at the research on WINE requests for support Photoshop is #1 in applications and software excluding games. You look on here about photographers telling their story and how much we want to use Linux and Adobe products.

With Windows 8 around the corner and how terribly crappy it looks for Windows professional power users I can only imagine that more and more photographers and creative professionals will be looking to change OS.

I also hate to see the argument that there are too many flavors of Linux out there. Pick one and support it only. I think there would be an agreement of Ubuntu for the Linux OS of choice. If you told a linux user if they had to use Ubuntu they could get their Photoshop and Lightroom to work I am 99.9% sure they would be okay with that.

Add me to the marketing research that says I would pay for Adobe products on Linux.

How about this, Adobe ... Photoshop Elements 10 is very close to running with the WINE compatibility layer, but there are still enough problems with the installation to keep even veteran users away (pros will want a package that installs and runs as smoothly as it would under Windows). Furthermore, PSE10 tends to crash when certain tools are selected. See http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager... for a list of current problems.
Now if Adobe would just commit resources to ensure that PSE10 and CS6 (which also has a "silver" rating) run as expected, you would never have to worry about porting these application to another platform, and you would most definitely help boost sales. My point is, work with WINE and watch your sales grow. And it'll be cheaper than re-writing the app.
There are many ways you can approach this: provide patches for existing software so they may run under WINE, or better yet work with the WINE devs so that they can change their program to better accomodate Photoshop. This could easily be done in less than three months if you just say you'll do it.
Sure, VMware and Virtualbox are sure bets to run anything- but you need to load the whole **** OS and pre-allocate resources. This isn't always good for mobile computers or the typical desktop (I don't care how efficient they came to be).

I already own a version of PSE but will not be buying a new one if it doesn't find a way to run under Linux.

Linux is a great platform that makes better use of properly configured hardware than either Windows or OSX, yet an application that would seriously benefit from that doesn't take advantage of the Linux platform. In a time when many game makers are starting to look in Linux's direction, and the travesty that is Windows 8 threatens to derail Microsoft's desktop dominance, now would be the perfect time to bring Photoshop to Linux.

I'm here because Apple removed the 17 inch laptop without telling us professionals a thing about it. Apple has become an unstable company for professionals and I need to switch to Linux because I trust Microsoft even less than I do Apple.

Adobe, it's time for you to be revolutionary again. Bring Creative Suite to Linux and we will purchase it.