P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

i just use windows because of adobe software, i hate windows.

I wish you guys would stop blowing-up my mailbox with this rediculous fantasy.  Adobe won't port to Linux because Linux users won't stand for this overbearing, subscription-based collection of bloatware taking over their entire system.  If the alternative tools already available for Linux aren't good enough they will gladly devote a Windows PC or Mac to Adobe to keep this crapware off their Linux box.

Accept their answer; pick up your alternative workflows, of which there are many. Adobe wants to do it's own thing.

Covering demographic as a means to stay relevant in the new age of FOSS accelerated by AI is a lot to comprehend.

Let it go.

'Nope. This is not true it's false'

Of course it is true. If Adobe thought it was financially worth doing they would do it.

As evidenced by the comments from staff - to date they do not. Remember business sense means , porting, maintaining, compatibility with the future roadmap, training developers and support staff, integration with other Adobe products...etc  The most important of all is Return on Investment, without that, there is no business case.

Business sense and technical difficulty are not the same thing.

Dave

I really don't understand why this dicussion keeps rolling on and on, repeating itself over and over, when the answer has been so clearly stated by Adobe officials, again over and over.

• Photoshop for Linux will happen the day it makes business sense to do so. Until that day, it will not happen.

There isn't anything else to say. That's the one and only answer.

In the past Microsoft has an offline os without any data collecting which runs on everything.

Now we have a data cloud collector os full of advertisement, which will go completely in the cloud in the near future. At 2025 many working systems will be electronic waste, or you have to pay.

Adobe has not to support all Linux distributions. They should concentrate on one  LTS distribution like Ubuntu 22.04. which Linux they will support is totally equal for me. But I want to leave Microsoft. But I can't because of Microsoft big brother Adobe.

How big are the performance lost of running Adobe cloud in wine?

Never heard that it will work. Is it possible to see a video howi have to install and how it perform?

Also keep in mind that if Adobe does port an application like Photoshop to Linux, it is unlikely to be ported as a simple standalone application like GIMP. It will probably be tightly connected with all of the cloud services that the Windows and Mac versions are now inextricably tied to. It would very likely be a cloud-based installer that also installs numerous networked components to support those Creative Cloud services, such as Adobe Fonts (which are fully cloud-based), Cloud Documents, Creative Cloud Libraries, maybe Lightroom Photos (in the cloud), Share for Review, and other Creative Cloud services. And they might need to develop and install a framework to allow the Adobe Color Engine to provide a proper layer for color management (I’m not sure if Linux has the same quality of OS-level color management that Windows and macOS have).

I only bring this up because a number of Windows and macOS users have already posted in this Community with questions about the number of non-optional Creative Cloud processes that are installed even with just one application, listed in OS process managers along with their RAM and CPU footprints, set to persistently run as background processes, and some maintaining their own network connections back to their cloud services. Many people use Linux because of a strong desire to maintain more manual control over their system configurations, but any Creative Cloud apps that become available on Linux would probably also not let the user control or permanently disable any of those networked Creative Cloud background processes.

And again, if a Linux market is viable, it should be relatively easy to convince a smaller company like Affinity that they would see a nice first mover advantage over Adobe on Linux if they would just port their apps, and that might show Adobe that they should do Linux too. But nobody seems to be pursuing that opportunity, except Corel who actually tried it, and then gave up.

I’m personally not opposed to Linux ports at all, I sincerely hope you get them…I’m just sayin' 🙂

right.

Linux doesn't have to rule the world in order to be appropriate for certain focused applications. Adobe CC is a niche product, not something that everyone is likely to run on a multi-purpose computer. The machine on which I run CC doesn't have any other purpose. It exists for me to edit photos for my business.

And for God's Sake, it bluescreens about twice a day with a very unhelpful Windows error. I'd pay extra to be rid of Windows.

And no, Apple is out of the question. I made the switch to Windows in order to build a machine to my specifications, something extremely difficult with Apple's closed architecture.

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Ron