P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

Make all (or at least most of the Adobe products) possible to run on Unix platforms and especially Linux Debian / Ubuntu.

I am Ubuntu user and the only thing that keeps me having a virtual machine with Windows is the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

You will get more sales from your products if they can run on Linux.
The free alternative Gimp is quite different from Photoshop and Photoshop seems to be much more professional.

Thanks.

How about release a linux version of Photoshop (Adobe creative Suite) ?
There are many designers, graphicers, people who are waiting to use their favorites softwares of the Adobe creative suite.
Adobe can potentially change the whole world's OS Market.
Apple snigger at Windows because of all the flaws that come with using CS on it. Making CS for Linux (probably Ubuntu, for it's fantastic store payment method) would take away OS X's stronghold on designers who want simplicity and security when working.

For more informations go there : http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

And see how much people want to be able to use your softwares on their favorite OS .

(Sorry for my bad english, I'm French)

Translated from Portuguese:

Linux is growing more and more especially so use ubuntu windows (I dual boot) in case of extremanessecidade that is when I can not run a program like Photoshop and many others believe q are the same and believe q would be a great investment of adobe create a version of photoshop for linux

linux esta crescendo mais e mais principalmente o ubuntu so uso o windows (tenho dual boot) em caso de extremanessecidade ou seja quando nao consigo rodar um programa como photoshop e acredito q varias outras pessoas passam o mesmo e acredito q seria um grande investimento da adobe criar uma versao do photoshop para linux

I've been a photographer for about fifteen years. I grew up using Photoshop. But, three years ago I got sick of Windows. Making a long story short, I switched to Linux. I dual-booted for a while, only booting into Windows to use Photoshop. What a pain. I started using GIMP for basic operations when I didn't want to reboot. Slowly, I stopped booting into Windows.

Photoshop is a much, much better program than GIMP. If Adobe made Photoshop for Linux, I'd buy it... as I've bought other programs and utilities for Linux. But, I'm at my third year anniversary of not using Photoshop, because it isn't available for my OS. Has my photography suffered? I don't think so. You work with the tools you have, and sometimes less is more. It's been a learning experience, but I miss my Photoshop.

I still accidentally hit Photoshop keyboard shortcuts in GIMP and get an unexpected tool. That's annoying and a bit depressing.

If one looks at the old read-only Adobe forums under topic views for Photoshop feature requests, support for Linux dominates. (The first Linux support thread I found had more views than all other posts within the past 4 months combined. ) Those forums are actually interesting to read. One Adobe employee keeps pointing out certain points like lack of color management and driver standards in Linux. (Technically, we don't even have drivers since external device chipset instructions are maintained in the kernel... but I digress.) I have to wonder what would happen if Adobe asked the Linux community for actual help towards usability and standards with these issues... with the goal of making Photoshop possible.

I know several others that are completely willing to switch from Windows to Linux, but Photoshop is holding them back.

I mean really, imagine if Windows were born today. Would Adobe make Photoshop for it? Heck no. I don't think this has as much to do with standards and drivers as it has to do with the user base... and maybe I have a skewed perspective (that's a bad pun for Shift+P in GIMP... forget if there's a shortcut in Photoshop), but there seems to be a lot of people looking for Photoshop in Linux, and VB/Wine aren't cutting it.

Just my two cents.
Jason

To whom it may concern,
I have just switched from using Windows Vista to using Linux's Ubuntu Natty Narwhal on my personal computer and laptop. I am certain you've heard it more than a few times, but myself and many of my colleagues would definitely love to see Photoshop ported for Linux. I hope that whomever I am addressing can relay the message that a lot more people use Linux than you think, and that there is ABSOLUTELY money to be made by allowing Photoshop's use on another OS. I truly hope to see some form of progress towards booting one of my favorite programs on my Linux machine in the next few years. The people behind the code at Adobe Photoshop are the best at what they do, and no other company or group of people have come remotely close to producing a program as strong and user friendly as you, but when I can't use this program just because I have a different OS it's like a kick to the face. Other than that, I am completely pleased with your program and can't wait to see what new improvements your company makes to it.
Thanks for your time,
Anonymous.

IMO, the "market share of linux users willing to pay for a version of Photoshop" is the wrong metric to use when making this judgement. Ask, instead, how many Windows/Mac users would migrate to (and pay for) a Linux-based Photoshop. I suspect the numbers would be big enough.

There are huge amounts of people out there just waiting to forget windows for good, its just not a professional platform, it lags, it goes slow, gets stuck, freezes with programs, and macosx is just too expensive.
Now with Linux, you have a stable and affordable OS, therefore people can just spend on what they need.. which is the software, not an OS which should be free. So many people are happy with Linux as a platform, the only problem is that software from mainly adobe and sony is unavailable on it, there is simply no alternative to photoshop, flash or after effects. Its a must!
You guys might assume that the people using linux is far less, thats only because linux doesn't run by marketing, but word of mouth, more and more people move to the platform, its only the professionals waiting around for a linux photoshop or after effects!
Face it, photoshop isn't running the best it can on windows, it would probably run far better on something like ubuntu linux. Ubuntustudio is a developer's OS.

There was some buzz a few years back about Google sponsoring an effort by CodeWeavers to improve Wine so that Photoshop CS and CS2 would work under Linux, but that was the last I heard of it.

I work on the LR team and use Ubuntu on my home laptop which is now dual booted with Windows 7 because Netflix and Lightroom. I tinkered with augmenting Wine to make LR run better a few years back, but never found enough time to make much progress (and that was before I had kids).

This forum would be a great place for those interested in a Linux version of Photoshop to cast their votes! (PS is one of the highest requested apps for Wine support if you filter out games)

There was a version 2.5 and 3 for IRIX/solaris (Silicon Graphics workstations) long time ago. But I think that the last 8 or 9 releases have been only for Windows and Macintosh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Ph...

About the possibility of a future linux version, the answers I've seen is that the market share of linux users willing to pay for a version of Photoshop would not be big enough to cover the cost of the port, especially given the market fragmentation (different desktop environments, missing stable color management assets, etc.)