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Inspiring
December 13, 2025
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Premiere Pro Linux support

  • December 13, 2025
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Considering Windows 11 feels like the slowest and most unstable Microsoft OS in years, I would really like to switch over to literally any Linux distribution. I just want to escape the general instability with drivers and Microsoft pushing updates that break my setup all the time - without loosing the choice of what hardware I run (like with MacOS).

 

Over the last years Windows dll compatibility got a lot better with Wine. I remember seeing several people successfully running Premiere Pro 24 utilizing Wine and some dlls they manually copied from Windows.

The only thing holding more people back from doing that is that it currently isn't possible to verify your program, since there is no way to run the Creative Cloud App.

 

 

I'm aware that a native port is a lot of work, but you seem to be able to do this for Apple M-Series hardware as well.

 

Anyways - is the stance still that Linux isn't a thing Adobe wants to bother with, while you bleed more and more users to DaVinci Resolve (Pro)?

 

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Inspiring
December 13, 2025

Yeah, there are way too many times where I curse at Premiere for crashing only to find out that it hung on as long as it could, when it was faulty drivers or one time Windows Explorer time out my network drive.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 13, 2025

There are many who would dearly appreciate a non-Windows PC OS that could handle the 'normal' PC apps. Sigh. 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Inspiring
December 13, 2025

Ah I didn't know that. I was aware that the Linux version lacked some version but I assumed they at least had version parity.

 

There is also the solution to run the programs in a VM disguesed as a native program (WinApps e.g.), but it is still Windows underneath.

I certainly hope I won't be using Windows in the next 5 years anymore. 

 

All the stability issues I had in the recent past always trace back to Windows and or related driver issues. 🫣

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 13, 2025

As a daily Resolve user ... I work for/with/teach pro colorists ... I'm on the forums 'over there' also. 

 

While Resolve has some Linux support, it is limited to one version only, hasn't been updated in quite some time, and for many has simply gotten too problematic to use with R20.x You might get it working, but it will probably take a fair amount of futzing with Linux settings to do so.

 

Linux support doesn't seem to be nearly as 'popular' as once it was, sadly.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...