Does Lightroom 5 work with Linux

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November 9, 2013
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Fed up with sloppy Windows OS. If not is it possible to change my license from windows to Mac.

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Correct answer Victoria Bampton LR Queen

It won't work with Linux (except perhaps using WINE), but your existing license will already work with Mac.

ls_rbls

Community Expert

Ignorance is such a bliss...

Please see here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCtDuxbPHU

Keep reading.

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/10850825#M61984

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

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Anonymous

I've been running Lightroom 5 on my Linux workstation for many months. Lightroom is one of the few non-native applications I use, so virtualization was the way to go.

For my setup, I'm virtuailzing Lightroom 5 in VMware Workstation 10 running on Scientific Linux 6.4 (RHEL 6 clone). You can try VMware Player, which is free, if you need no more than one VM running at a time. My Lightroom catalog & previews are stored locally in the Windows VM with source photos stored on the VMware shared host folder. For sanity, I frequently run automated Robocopy (a Windows version of Rsync) scripts which backup my Lightroom catalog and preview directories directly to my host filesystem, and are included in my main backup routine.

Overall performance of virtualized Lightroom is quite good and offers near native speed, though there is always a slight performance hit with virtuization. I'll often run Lightroom multi-monitor, but that can be a bit finicky if you switch between Lightroom modules often.

Having said all that, Linux-based operating systems are superb for many things, but if you're a professional photographer or otherwise use Lightroom for hours each day, stick with a native Windows or Mac platform.

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FrankDiaz

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This is something I'm attempting to do as well. Except when I launch the Lightroom installer in Wine I get prompted that it will only work in Windows 7. How did you successfully install Lightroom with Wine?

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Anonymous

I made no mention of WINE. I'm running Lightroom on Windows 7, which is virtualized in VMware Workstation 10, now running on Scientific Linux 6.5.

I'm skeptical of graphical performance of WINE, VirtualBox, or KVM, but would have to image that VirtualBox would be second-best to VMware's offering.

D Fosse

Community Expert

No Linux, it's a marginal market. And generally, people who switch from one platform to another because they believe it's "better" are in for a disappointment. Getting a new computer may sometimes help, though