P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

just watch. in another year linux will rule the world. 

oh wait, that's what linux users said last year. and the year before, and the year before that etc.  check the date of rhe first post in this thread.

and next year, i predict... 

The situation is changing, personal security that comes with non MS software is rising in importance for many people, and Linux itself is improving. I suggest you  search Amazon for Linux and you'll find loads of hardware products now, including mini computers which support Linux.

Moreover Adobe have mistakenly lost a segment of their former client base, those people who are not regular users of Photoshop so can't justify the significant monthly cost of the entire suite. This group have obviously shifted to free products but could be enticed back with the Linux compatibility offering. It's big enough for Blender to offer this.

Also, there is already some history about this. Some years ago, Corel, once a major competitor to Adobe, released the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for Linux. Corel had a chance to gain market share in the Linux market for commercial graphics suites, maybe beating Adobe in that market.

But, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for Linux was not successful, and was quickly cancelled. Apparently there was not a significant Linux market for major commercial graphics suites, and no one else has tried since then. The popular commercial graphics suite by Affinity (Photo, Designer, Publisher) is also not available for Linux; their platforms are macOS, Windows, and iPad OS.

no matter what it is, for 2+ decades people have been extolling linux and claiming it's just a matter of time before it takes over the world (of computing systems).

It's like a chicken egg issue.

I only use windows at my home office system because of the creative cloud requirements.

At office I have a iMac.

nov 2023

worldwide:

win market share > 69% (win 11 >18%)

linux market share <4%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

I know that topic since the early 2020s an I know the decsion from May 2021 "never"

But windows will come a dead horse. After the support end of win10. Many user will switch to Linux. And than Adobe has the choice to support Linux or lost paying users to affinity. I'm not interested to switch my workflow to a new software suite.

So please rethink the choice for unsupporting Linux!

I'd also add that particuarly if I score a big job After effects; I currently have to duel boot for that one program.

So I'm likely to consider paying Adobe up to $3k for a perpetual license of After effects that worked on Linux. I'd pay you around 500 a year to stay on that perpetual license yearly contract. I'd even pay 1k per upgrade if I'd skipped a couple of upgrade years.

You're friendly reminder that flexibility and convenience may be the issue here.
Linux people are pragmantic; not poor, we just need Adobe to join Autodesk, Luxology and Maxon in realising the market potential.

-S

Oh cool Photoshop do have the web version good move. Like not perfect/ideal but workable for most. The subscription model is unfortunatly a fact of life with big business; but at very least they have come up with something that could help. I think that'd be fine for me since I don't like Photoshop and just need to interchange properly and unconcerned if the performance isn't brilliant so long as I can keep my adobe using clients.

What I'd like to see though; options to pay by the hour. I might be in and out of it in 15 minutes; I don't want a month worth if I'm not going to touch it for the remaining 29 days. Some food for thought.

It's sad to see it is possible to run it on Linux but there's no way to use a license with it or install it using a trusted package. With all the progress made on wine, PlayOnLinux and Steam it's a shame Adobe still doesn't recognize the potential of partially supporting this market segment instead of just closing the door.