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December 2, 2010
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Lightroom for Linux - is it possible? Most my friends and I need it, because of not using Windows and current Linux tools can't get so great instruments for raw preprocessing and organizing...

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Pascal_O

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Count me in as disapointed. I'm a Lighrroom customer since version 2.0 and keep a Windows partition just for handling my pictures. This is just bad as it break my workflow, each time I want to handle my pictures I need to reboot!!!! I've been asking about a GNU/Linux Lighroom version, always the same answer not enough potential client... I just bet this is wrong and reading post from different forums it seems that the port should not be that hard and that many people are asking for it.

So yes count me in! I've even said that I'm ready to pay twice the price for Lightroom on GNU/Linux, I'm not joking, I'd pay that and right away!

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it has my vote. I have been an adobe customer for a very long time and am very disappointed that none of my apps run properly under Linux. I am 100% Linux now on all my machines at home and work, and miss the features of Lightroom and Elements for Photo editing. I hate to think of looking at other products, but Adobe doesn't work well in wine.

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dtull

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I work on the LR team and actually tinkered a bit (back in the 1.4 - 2.0 timeframe) with making some tweaks to LR and Wine to make it run that way, but never had enough (personal) time to throw at the job.

Lightroom probably has a lower porting effort than (say) Photoshop since it is smaller in general and many of the pieces are very portable (the Lua interpreter, SQLite, and much of the app is already in platform agnostic Lua scripting code), but it's still a pretty big undertaking.

My home laptop is dual booted with Windows 7 now for Lightroom and Netflix watch instantly...

P.S. I'd encourage your friends to cast their votes as well. If there's any way to ensure it doesn't happen it'd be for this post to have only a couple of votes!

PECourtejoie

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Hello!
It's a question that has been asked many times in other venues about Photoshop, and the message I always heard is that the market research hinted that there might not be enough Linux users that would want to pay for the software. Not enough versus the cost of porting, and maintaining a Linux version (Quality Assurance, for instance), and also that the linux market is too fragmented, and that the necessary groundwork might not be there. (color management, etc.)

But I guess that we'll hear from engineers.

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Pascal_O

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I know that this has already been asked... But I cannot start to understand why Adobe seems to dismiss Linux users this way. I've read some comments about Linux on this forum and please be honest. Linux is not for hacker only, Linux users do not expect free (as in free beer) software only. Many are ready to pay for GOOD software and Lightroom definitly fall into this category.

I've tried Lightroom on a VirtualBox, it is too slow to be usable!

I'm really looking forward for a native linux port. This OS is so much better than Windows (no I'm not a troll, for example the file system is lot faster and you have far more chance to get a virus) that we have all to win here.

Can we hope? There is a port of Lightroom under MacOS which has a BSD kernel not too far from a Linux one. The hard work is done on this side. I cannot speak for the GUI though...

I'm ready to pay today a Lighroom on Linux with a price tag 50% more expensive than the Windows one. I mean it!

Please if you want a Linux port, post a message maybe Adobe will listen!

Pascal.

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robin48gx

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I saw someone at Brighton and Hove camera club extolling the virtues of light room. I do not have a Mac

and I do not run windows at home (I refuse to now esp after steam has ported stuff to linux).

But I would pay for Lightroom on linux. I pay for steam games on linux.

I pay for other digital content. I just don't want to pay for an operating system

where it is easily hi-jacked by time wasting viruses and the like which applies

slightly more to Windows than it does to Mac.

Also, I need linux for work, I need bash scripting, gcc, awk, sed, latex

and make files, stuff that windows does not do very well.

Come on adobe, I will willingly pay 100 quid for light room on linux.....

I am sure there are thousands of others who would too....

JP Hess

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Keith_Reeder wrote:
amichai tahor wrote:
and will pay when Adobe grows up and port their software to Linux. So catch a wake up Adobians, we are waiting!!
You wouldn't have to wait if you weren't insistent on using an unsupported OS - it's a hair shirt you've chosen to wear.

He ISN'T waiting to use the program. He's already using it on both Windows and MacOS, but he'd like to be able to use it on Linux, too. He isn't doing anything wrong or foolish by using Linux as well and he's just letting Adobe know that there is some demand for Lightroom among Linux users.

Whenever this discussion comes up, proponents speak in broad generalities. They say there is a big demand for Lightroom running under linux. OK, show some numbers that would convince Adobe that it really is worth their time and expense and increased staff to support another OS. This isn't a question of how many linux users there are, but rather how many Lightroom users really want/need linux. Adobe is currently cutting support for older Windows and Mac operating systems that is (probably) causing greater displeasure among users.

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