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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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    August 11, 2011
    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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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    July 10, 2011
    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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    April 27, 2011
    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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    PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
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    April 27, 2011
    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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      December 2, 2010

      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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        February 20, 2013

        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....

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        justdanyul
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        February 20, 2013

        Java was designed by a unix company, and ran on Linux and SUNOS before it ran on windoze.  Your example of Java makes no sense. I programmed my MSc project in Java years ago, and the `jar' file ran on Linux SUNOS and Windoze desktops without modification.

        I find your conjecture about Java being unsupported on Linux rather puzzling. The whole point of Java is that it is multi-platform. I have no problems running Java on Linux.


        robin48gx wrote:

        Java was designed by a unix company, and ran on Linux and SUNOS before it ran on windoze.  Your example of Java makes no sense. I programmed my MSc project in Java years ago, and the `jar' file ran on Linux SUNOS and Windoze desktops without modification.

        I find your conjecture about Java being unsupported on Linux rather puzzling. The whole point of Java is that it is multi-platform. I have no problems running Java on Linux.

        To be quite blunt with you, the trouble you have with my conjecture is that you have problems actually reading my post. Look what I wrote:

        "but is still a second rate citizen in the desktop linux eco-system, java language bindings for quite important stuff such as clutter, gst etc etc is terribly far behind the other language bindings"

        So, what im saying, is the important desktop open source linux projects, take Clutter as an example, do not embrace Java very much. Its is possible to find some half arsed bindings, which is several versions behinds the other language bindings. Look at this wiki page for example, check the bindings section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter_(toolkit)

        Another example, java-gnome (which is the GTK/gnome binding for java), is not even in my preferred distros official package repository. Nobody cares, "just use python".

        Your "I wrote something in java which runs on multiple platforms" answer is completely off target. Great, so have I, in uni it was more c++ for me, but during my 15+ years of being a developer by trade, I have most certainly used my fair amout of java. Again, if you had read my post, you could see I pointed out linux it was a good platform for developing JEE (..the J here stands for java you know ). But again, this has nothing todo with what I wrote about java as a language not being embraced by the opensource community.

        Please try and read why I actually am writing. You seem to be skimming. Same with the games comment, Counter Strike is from 2000, its hardly a "recent AAA title" , TF2 isn't recent either.

        All the best

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