Linux Support for Illustrator on the Desktop

Dear Adobe Team,

I am writing as a developer and designer to urge Adobe to bring its professional creative applications—particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro—to Linux.

For professionals who combine design and software development, Linux is an important working environment. Access to Adobe applications should not require maintaining a separate operating system, switching computers, or relying on compatibility workarounds. These barriers add cost, interrupt productivity, and limit our choice of tools.

There is a business opportunity here, but also a risk of losing customers. As competing creative tools become available and improve on Linux, users have stronger reasons to explore alternatives. Once individuals and teams invest in learning those tools and rebuilding their workflows, winning them back becomes harder.

Native Linux support would help Adobe:

• Retain customers who want to move their creative work to Linux.
• Attract developers, designers, studios, and educational institutions that prefer Linux.
• Support teams working across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Strengthen Creative Cloud’s position as a professional platform that accommodates customers’ preferred working environments.

We understand that supporting another operating system requires investment in development, testing, graphics compatibility, and support. A practical starting point could be a public demand survey, followed by a limited beta for a selected Linux distribution and one or two key applications.

Please consider publishing a clear position and roadmap for Linux support. Even an initial pilot would give professionals an opportunity to demonstrate demand and provide useful feedback.

We want to keep using Adobe’s tools while choosing the operating system that best supports our work. Please give Linux users a supported, professional way to remain part of the Adobe ecosystem.

Kind regards,
CADCO
Developer & Designer

It’s absolutely necessary to make a working Linux version. I’m already using Davinci on Linux, with some hick ups, but it comes closer to be a true alternative for me to switch for good. 

We should send them a petition with some alternative to change.org…
I am absolutely serious.

The engineering team at our organization is slowly transitioning to the cloud for it’s raw horsepower, which is something inaccessible on local devices. Meanwhile, we are stuck with MacOS and Windows waiting for things to render.

A good professional (software or media) cost’s close to $150 to 250 an hour. Rendering/Build times are variable costs where the professional is just waiting doing nothing. Cloud compute is a fixed cost.

There are enough case studies from Google Cloud and other cloud providers where companies leveraging virtual desktop infrastructure experienced gains productivity. So many developers are happy with Google bringing Android Studio to Google Cloud natively via Ubuntu Linux and the performance is something unparalleled to local hardware.

I am perplexed as to why Adobe is ignoring the next frontier of workplace productivity? The Cloud.

The cloud runs on Linux. Linux support makes absolute business sense.

Give us Linux support. You could divert some of that useless AI spending and use it for something sensible instead.

pretty please!!!

Please, it is time for Linux support with the current rate of Linux adoption.

Adobe on linux (red hat or similar) is a MUST! Come on Adobe! What are you waiting for?

I don't get it. The entire world revolves around "accessibility" and "inclusion", yet you're being forced to use an OS that forces you to trash tens of thousands of Dollars of excellent hardware, when also everything is about "sustainability". 

I'd also GLADLY switch to Linux. I would have years ago, had running a dual boot system for Adobe ALONE wouldn't have been such a pain. I work with Adobe software since '96. I won't let Microsoft force me to trash 2 perfectly good workstations just because *whatever*. So I'll either have to set up my "home server" to connect to the internet for all my machines or as a cloud replacement via USB or some other hack - because Adobe won't step up. Almost every other software I use professionally exists as a perfectly functioning and well maintained Linux version. the ones that don't don't require online access. 

i created this account to say that it is unacceptable that adobe still does not offer a native linux version. it's just comes out as shady.
it is completely possible to support it, it is not being done because of shady reasons.