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April 30, 2022
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Really Supporting Chromebook and Mac on ARM but not Linux

  • April 30, 2022
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Ok come on, chromebook is basically Linux. It uses the Linux kernel even, meaning your software could very easily be ported, in fact I have gotten windows photoshop and illistrator to install in various distros just fine but am not going to pay you for your product you refuse to port to my OS so I still use gimp, inkscape and krita. Its just stupid to continue to wag your willy in the face of the Linux community still when even Microsoft themselves are essentially gutting their OS and replacing its dysfunctional internals with Linux to retain market share. Spare me the whole it doesn't work on Linux, it does and its easy to package even for your spoiled development team, webpack makes that simple as all hell and surprise it doesn't even take more than a few minutes to do, so an intern could easily do it. What you don't like, organizationally since the you who responds to this which I will never check will be unable to do much of anything to change anything I am aware, is that Google/Microsoft/Apple all lock things down as part of their spying on their customers thing, protecting you in doing the same and/or whatever ultimately simple process you fear would expose your products to piracy in greater numbers than already the case. I thought that's why you moved to the creative cloud though, this should be handled by your servers using trivial amounts of data at near instant speeds, unless its like the authenication servers with microsoft that were easy to set up a fake one and get free windows (but also it is easy to torment windows support into giving you a free key too so that's silly if the reason)


Linux is not going to replace any propeitary system overnight, you are not wrong as an organization to write off that market share when looking at it from your ivory tower, but who exactly uses Linux but the people that are the most actively available for you to sell other things to because they are most likely to spend all day in front of a computer. Beyond that Linux is not going away, especially as people tire of the spying on them by these obnoxious overlords and Microsoft keeps making questionable decisions. So stop making excuses, make your devs do something other than making your products worse or going to adult summer camp and NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH THE LINUX COMMUNITY BEFORE A MORE SUBSTANTIAL THREAT TO YOUR BUSINESS EMERGES FROM SHEER NECESSITY.

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John T Smith
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May 2, 2022

People have been asking for linux programs for about 10 years... not going to happen

https://community.adobe.com/t5/the-lounge/waiting-for-linux-native-softwares/td-p/10943296

Peru Bob
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May 2, 2022
kglad
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May 2, 2022

these are user-to-user forums.  if you want to make a suggestion to adobe, https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html