Adobe, Linux Support, and the Linux Foundation.

[gai.ra.III]

While generally I've only lurked the Adobe forums I've finally worked up guts to post this. I also know that about every 1-2 months this question is asked but I think it deserves a another go around.

My premises is this:

Adobe joined the Linux Foundation in 2008 for a focus on Linux for Web 2.0  Applications like Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR™. Currently Adobe holds a silver membership status with the Linux Foundation. So why in the world do they not have any Creative Cloud Programs available in Linux without the need for WINE and other such workarounds. I think it's a sucky move to support the Linux Foundation and use Linux in the back-end while not doing anything to support actual Linux users who have for at least a decade requested Adobe desktop products on Linux. Sure it's going to take a lot of manpower, financial resources, etc. But to truly support Linux and the Linux Foundation I think it's necessary that y'all do make things like Photoshop and Lightroom available for the Linux desktop. In any regards the wider Linux community would most likely help with testing and debugging programs. We're used to it.

[AndBoe]

Sorry to say that You are terribly wrong, because You totally missed the fact that from the beginning of next year W7 is EOL and Microsoft does not seem to be able to provide a follow-up operating system.

So the users are forced to select Apple or a Linux platform.

I cannot understand why Adobe sticks to MS and not even makes reasonable attenpts to provide Linux compatible software. I can only imagine very valuable contracts being the reason for that.

[ThatOneGuyWhoUsesItForSchool]

ADOBE In the begining:Too little support by users (gets proven wrong) now:too little resources (not true,you have a mac port. That code can be made to run on liunx.  C++ can be recomliped and the mac port allreday does the bulk of kernal support because both OSX and Linux are Unix based with your resousres it could likley be done in a few months to a possibly a year depends how much you use the closed sourced APIs in OSX

[Arttt]

I don't understand the logic around the money not being there for Adobe. It's a subscription service. All they're doing is opening a window for more people and it would allow a large group of people to move to the OS that they want full time. Cmon Adobe. For the amount you make from CC subscriptions these days, you can afford the dev time for a Linux port. So many big studios are on Linux already. Sony for example uses Linux terminals in-house for their 3D department.

Step up Adobe.

[Guest]

I'll add my name as a Linux Ubuntu user and would like to see Adobe available for this OS.  I have dumped Microsoft and will never again use MS for anything. I'm fed up with the nonsense one has to go through on an ongoing basis to use it.  Simply tried to connect my phone hotspot to MS Win 10 and was told I had to sign up for something.  No I don't. I switched to Linux and connected my phone with no issues.  No bloatware now. No MS agravation.  Happy as a duck in water.

[pranav_bhattarai]

A dead link

[gcorreddu]

Ok, fair enough - but at least for a share of Mac and Win users, that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Users like myself would've been on Linux since 2011, if it wasn't for the lack of Adobe CC support.

By refusing to port even just one of their apps to Linux, Adobe is preventing a good share of users from using an OS they'd find more comfortable, as well as losing potential revenue from other users already working with what they have in Linux.

I know that if Adobe had had Linux support, I would have bought my current machine (Dell XPS 9380) with Ubuntu pre-installed, and saved myself some money to put towards my Adobe subscription. Adobe software is the only non-free/open-source software I use on my machine, and I know there's many like me - or at least enough to have threads such as this one everywhere all the time.

[ls_rbls]

Hi,

Old post, so for the sake of ALL FAIRNESS to linux,  I would like to add my share.

Maybe back in 2012 this answer might've been somewhat correct, but it is not entirely accurate as there were and still are options available.

See here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/viewing-layers-on-adobe-reader-using-chromebook/m-p/10... 

[ls_rbls]

Hi,

Old post, so for the sake of ALL FAIRNESS to linux,  I would like to add my share.

The community that used to host the link provided in this correct answer  was retired.

Technolgy has matured, and the opinions in this post  are not entirely accurate anymore.

Even back in 2012 there were and still are options available.

See here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/viewing-layers-on-adobe-reader-using-chromebook/m-p/10... 

[ls_rbls]

In all fairness to linux, I would like to add my share to this discussion.

I've used linux since 1998, and I can reassure you that not knowing the options available is not the same as some of the opinions expressed in  this thread.

So for the sake of ALL FAIRNESS to linux,  I would like to add my share.

Maybe back in 2012 this answer might've been somewhat correct, but it is not entirely accurate as there were and still are options available.

See here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/viewing-layers-on-adobe-reader-using-chromebook/m-p/10... 

[ls_rbls]

Hi,

Old post, so for the sake of ALL FAIRNESS to linux,  I would like to add my share.

Maybe back in 2012 the opinions expressed in this thread might've been somewhat correct.

I've been a linux user and enthusiast  since 1998.

They've always  been, (and still are) options available.

See here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/viewing-layers-on-adobe-reader-using-chromebook/m-p/10... 

[ls_rbls]

Adobe Photoshop Express, Adobe Acrobat Reader Mobile app,  Adobe Sign, Adobe Experience Manager,  Adobe Fill & Sign, etc...

are supported in chrome os and android os.

See slides from Google Playstore:

   

That IS linux kernel support right there!!

Old post, so for the sake of ALL FAIRNESS to linux,  I would like to add my share.

Maybe back in 2012 the opinions expressed in this thread might've been somewhat correct.

I've been a linux user and enthusiast  since 1998.

They've always  been, (and still are) options available.

See here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/viewing-layers-on-adobe-reader-using-chromebook/m-p/10... 

And since these other two threads were locked a few years ago, I would like to take this  great opportunity to merge  them in here with my reply,  so  that the 500K ++  linux croud that was previously voiced down is not  left out:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/get-started/installing-adobe-cc-on-ubuntu-linux/td-p/9449583 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/photoshop-for-linux-os/m-p/5323961 

[ls_rbls]

Duplicate content removed by forum moderator.

[Abambo]

@AndBoe: Windows 7 is old stuff and some of Adobe's latest products don't even run any more on Windows 10, first iterations. Windows 10 is a very valuable follow-up OS of Windows 7 and 8, and it works great apart from some upgrade disasters.

You really should consider getting your own company and creating competitors products to Adobe on Linux if it is a platform that is easy and lucrative to support.

[Abambo]

First: why posting twice such a big junk of pictures.

Second: The MacOS kernal is also based on a UNIX system (BSD if I'm correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU).

Windows has great similarities to Unix.

Again and again: Adobe is a great commercial company and if Adobe would see an important market potential to port their software to UNIX (Linux flavour...), they would do so.

The little apps you are posting icons about are by no way a proof of any market potential of Linux. They are a consequence of the success of the tablets and smart phones. And smart phones/tablets are a different environment than a Linux desktop PC.

[ls_rbls]

Hi Abambo long time, no read.

Is always great to  get attention from you and your feedback.

You keep people in-line and honest.

I apologize if I posted  twice my reply.

It was not my intention to be annoying, this was an error when I was uploading my replies  in different threads at the same time while using my mobile device.

Also, I didn't posted the screenshots from my Android device thinking of them from an art appreciation standpoint; much less it was my itention  to agitate  the bee hive.

I just didn't wanted to continue to type  in my extensive reply all of the  Adobe apps that are finally available and supported for the Android linux kernel.

I can tell this topic becomes sensitive, and I can clearly tell the difference between how it feels to be welcomed or not welcomed at all... just the same way it feels during  job- hiring interviews when I've applied for computer jobs during the last 20 years.

Let's not forget that I am also here in these forums helping MS Windows and Apple users. 

It would be greatly appreciated to see  answers marked as correct too for those individuals that take  the time and efffort in learning linux.

I have stated before in these forums that I am a linux enthusiast, but I am extremely vendor neutral as well.

So when it breaks down to the content that I've just posted, I really  know what I'm talking about.

Nothing in my content was aimed to put down the MS Windows family  of operating systems, nor the Unix-like operating systems in the macOS and iOS families of operating system.

I am sorry, if in the past I've been sarcastic to macOS  users and  have engaged unnecessarily  in heated discussions with other community users and MVPs.

If my participation is not welcomed in these forums, all you have to say is we don't want you here, and I'll leave the forums.

Is there a way to delete the duplicated thread ?

[Abambo]

You have an opinion and there is nobody who wants to suppress that one. We just happen to have different opinions...

Unfortuneatly we cannot delete any more threads or parts of threats. My only option is to move the first or the second post out of the view of the readers.

[stefanolinc]

• Linux is the OS of 1.85% of all desktop operating systems worldwide.
• The market share of Linux in India was 5.67%.
• In 2019, Linux ran on 100% of the world’s 500 supercomputers.
• 95% of the servers that run the world’s top 1 million domains are powered by Linux.
• In 2018, Android dominated the mobile OS market with 74.13%.

[from gs.statcounter.com, last 12 months data]

I don't know how can you call it nobody. Moreover, if software houses developed also for Linux, I bet many people would switch to a free OS which is more customizable, safer, faster and more ethical than Windows. It's hard to think that Microsoft and Apple don't have any role in this decision (that I've never seen justified officially) .

[chrisw44513306]

Best part about Linux is, if you can't make an app work with it: https://github.com/corbindavenport/creative-cloud-linux , you are guaranteed that there are already multiple (often)free alternatives available. Check out: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-apps-prove-dont-need-adobe-creative-suite-linux/ 

Lists alternatives to Adobe CC apps. Some of which are better and/or easier to use then their Adobe counterparts

[timothyc18277036]

The truly strange thing about this is that, if Adobe made their software native on Linux, it would likely start the death spiral for at least Windows. How many folks do you imagine are chained to Windows exclusively for access to this software? Sure, there are Linux alternatives but, if you've been using Photoshop since version 1, how enthused are you to begin a new learning curve with Gimp (as good as it is)? It's kind of weird to think about the potential power Adobe has by making this one change.

[codenamerayven]

i must say, this is maddening.. utter madness!

for me, and my colleagues, entrenching myself ever deeper into computer hardware and software dependence is unavoidable, lest i do a 180 and take up farming or somesuch. i would love to simply just get on with my work, and not ponder the puzzling strategies of ubiquitous hardware and software developers of industry standard tools, and their decissions to leave gaping holes in their support. with so many moving parts, i imagine something so big, like adobe, with somany right hands and left hands passing each other like ships in the night, there is some decission maker, who has no idea this issue even exists, and if informed would be just as surprised as we are.. enough to draft a half page memo or whatever and have CC ported to a third platform... THE third platform: Linux et al. hopefully, after they spearheaded that project, they would be fired for not doing it sooner.

I mean is it really that hard? ..so difficult in fact that they would leave a significant sum of money on the table, and turn Linux users toward their competitors??

I'd love to know the logic. i'd love to have somebody in the know make me eat these words with a totally justifiable and obvious explaination as to why this is so: "the reason we don't / won't make CC available on Linux is _________, you idiot!! ..get a real OS!"

[Unis_Torvalds]

This is a chicken-and-egg problem (also a lame cop-out).

For a lot of professionals, Adobe CC is the only thing tying them to Windows or MacOS.  If Adobe followed other DCC software vendors (Autodesk, Blackmagic, Foundry, SideFX, Unity, etc.) and supported Linux natively, we may then begin to see the migration.

[Filip98]

+1

I don't even know who records these statistics, there's hundreds of Linux distro's with a huge amount of activity on their communities, true the average PC has Windows pre-installed but when they have Windows and Mac builds this is a choice

[Roither]

Thanks

[luca73]

here's an opportunity to make that change.

https://www.change.org/p/adobe-systems-make-adobe-cc-run-natively-on-linux-platforms

Please share if you care.

[luca73]

Here's on opportunity to make our voice heard.

https://www.change.org/p/adobe-systems-make-adobe-cc-run-natively-on-linux-platforms

Please share if you care.
Luca