/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idc-p/8323986#M19853Jan 31, 2018
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Not biased, just realistic. I totally agree that everything in life shouldn't be governed by profit margins - a point of view that sadly doesn't have much traction these days.
But I also understand that some business propositions will never fly. This is one of them. Actually I don't think the minuscule market is the biggest problem - what makes it impossible is the huge overhead and support nightmare in dealing with an ad hoc, fragmented environment such as the Linux "community" - not a company, but a community, mind you. Who do they talk to? Which Linux distribution would get priority when conflicts happen, as they inevitably will? Where are the standardized frameworks and APIs? It's not just an OS kernel they're dealing with.
I'm sure when you look at the broader picture you will see that this isn't going to happen.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idc-p/8323987#M19854Jan 31, 2018
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I just don't see why you lot are wasting your time defending a corporation's decisions when that corporation makes billions every quarter and doesn't need you.
If I, as a legitimate and long-time Adobe user, want to protest that I want Linux/alt platform support, your stepping in and defending their decision to not support that helps no-one. At all.
Therefore, I believe Adobe have undercover people working on their forums. Why else would you all waste your time.
Maybe if they are genuinely bringing out a cloud solution, if anyone at Adobe actually cares enough, this information can be used to support that case.
Either way, there's an unsatisfied user base. That you cannot deny or dismiss.
The unsatisfied user base needs a solution. Either an Adobe solution or a competitor one.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idc-p/8323989#M19856Jan 31, 2018
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Therefore, I believe Adobe have undercover people working on their forums.
Are you joking?
If I, as a legitimate and long-time Adobe user, want to protest that I want Linux/alt platform support, your stepping in and defending their decision to not support that helps no-one. At all.
I don’t protest you (and many others) wanting Photoshop for Linux; after all who but you should be able to know what you want?
But when you make untrue statements (edit: also when one presents specious reasoning, unjustified conclusions, …) you should be prepared to accept dissenting posts.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idc-p/9785118#M24575Mar 20, 2018
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Hello,
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and according to a YouTube video it's possible to run Photoshop with PlayOnLinux. I want to check out the trial version of Photoshop CC, but when trying to download it, I get an error message that I don't meet the system requirements. Can anybody give me a clue on how I can download the trial version for Windows successfully?
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idc-p/9885563#M19785May 10, 2018
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Linux users have great tools for editing images. But when we want something like a photoshop or lightroom that are more excellent tools we become helpless.
I ask: Why does Adobe do these tools for Windows and Mac and does it for Linux? Everyone knows that the Linux platform is one of the most used on the planet, if it is not the most used today, and Adobe does not pay attention to this platform. The only product I know for Linux is Flash.
I would like to be a Photoshop and Lightroom user on Linux.
Everyone knows that the Linux platform is one of the most used on the planet, if it is not the most used today
This made me curious, so I checked some statistics. Concentrating on the desktop computer market - excluding mobile devices - most of them agree on roughly 80% Windows, roughly 18% MacOS, and 1.5% Linux. What the last 0.5% do, they don't say.
If you include mobile devices the balance tips a long way towards Apple, but Photoshop doesn't run on mobile devices, so that's irrelevant.
In the graphics/photography segment Apple has traditionally had a strong position. Adobe has always stated "roughly 50/50" Mac/Win market share for their graphics desktop applications. No actual figures have ever been released to my knowledge.
Anyway, Photoshop on Linux is never going to happen. Not only is the potential user base small both by numbers and percentages - but the whole point of using Linux is that you don't want to pay for software. Not exactly a golden business proposition...
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idc-p/9885566#M19788May 10, 2018
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I think otherwise, if you use Linux you are using something free not for disinterest in paying, but by choice.
I bought a notebook that came with Windows 10. When I install Windows it automatically authenticates, but I prefer to use Linux because it suits me better at work. I always visit the Adobe website to get something for Linux and be able to get it but I never find anything.
The Linux proposal is not to stop paying for software but to facilitate access to computing technologies. There are paid versions of Linux that are supported by companies that have services on this platform.
Almost everything works on the basis of Linux. If you go to check the amount of desktop users you would be surprised. In China are millions, imagine around the world!
If you use a simple Android smartphone you are using Linux.
Anyway, I would like to buy Adobe products but I will not harm my work using Windows, and I do not want to pay the price of an eye to have a Mac.
Unfortunately I have to look for less robust alternatives.
Please just compile this for Linux already. Windows is a disaster lately. Constant bugs on and off with these updates, and tonight Windows corrupted itself and I had to spend hours fixing it manually in command prompt. Linux hasn't always been the most user friendly, but I never had this much hell with Linux, its far more stable and easier than Windows 10 has been for me. I hate to say it because I have used Windows since Windows 95, but seriously, I'm sick of being tied to this OS because devs refuse to compile for Linux. The excuse that not enough people use Linux is dumb. If you cannot support Linux as often as Windows because of cost, fair enough, but what is stopping you from atleast releasing a Linux version every 3-4 years? I'd happily use photoshop from 4 years ago, if it ran on Linux natively, versus the latest version on Windows. Right now the only way to do it is Virtual Machine, which is expensive and not worth it unless you have a super computer. And this excuse of "not enough people use Linux" is ironic, because companies like you not supporting Linux, is part of the reason why more people don't use Linux. Photoshop is such an important program for so many people, that many of us are not going to ditch Windows, unless a Linux alternative popups for all the programs we use. I haven't found a decent alternative to photoshop in Linux, but if there were and you still didn't support Linux, I would ditch photoshop.
Please add Linux support. Even if you only did a new Linux release every 4 years until more people used Linux, that would be better than nothing, but the reason more people don't use Linux is ironically because software companies like you don't compile for it. A substantial amount of people would switch to Linux if all their programs natively ran on it, I guarantee it.
Unfortunately, Linux is somewhat of an illusion and does not even exist as a single target. There are a variety of constantly evolving systems, as you know. If the Linux community had chosen one version to be "Linux" and put all their attention on that, and taught people to pay for software, it would have been my desktop long ago, and Adobe's too.
From what I've seen online elsewhere, you can go to Wine HQ to see which versions of Photoshop and Lightroom work well with Wine on Linux or you could go and use one of the many other Windows image editors that are already known to work very well with Wine such as PhotoLine, PhotoScape, PhotoFiltre and PhotoImpact.
Of course, you can go and use some of the many native Linux options instead such as Corel Aftershot Pro, Pixeluvo, Polarr, Neat Image (noise reduction), Photomatix HDR, PencilSheep (an Ubuntu snap), Gimp 2.10 (now getting much better), etc. Good luck in whatever you decide to do. 🙂
Is there a version of Photoshop that's available for Linux? Many vendors these days are supporting Linux nowadays, but I think I'm just not looking in the right place on the Adobe web site for Photoshop for Linux.
A few months ago I had to switch from Windows 10 to Ubuntu Linux 18 because of serious problems with Windows (constant automatic updates that reboot in the middle of my work even though I turned off automatic updates, and Microsoft's own anti-virus that can't be uninstalled and that behaves like RansomWare because it keeps deleting entire non-infected eMail folders then encrypting them without any option to decrypt that requires paid support to fix {I found a way to decrypt, finally, but it wasted days of being unproductive to get that working}). Linux boots almost instantly, and all my programs start almost immediately now without any delay at all (including a web browser re-opening 50+ tabs that took up to 5 minutes under Windows taking less than 1 second under Linux), so there's no way I ever want to go back to Windows ever again.
Unfortunately, Photoshop for Windows is unstable with WINE and running Windows 10 under a virtual machine is far from ideal (and extremely inefficient), so I'm hoping to get the native Linux version so that I can finally eliminate Windows entirely as Photoshop is the last remaining application I rely on that depends on Windows.
What email address would be associated with the crash reports that you've submitted? Would you please go to Help > System Info and then copy and paste the contents of that window in your reply?
Thanks for your reply Daniel. I've had yet another crash just now. Let's just say it's been a bad day..
Anyway, as far as attaching a sample file. The file itself is quite large, almost 1 Gb, so that's probably not possible. I can try to reduce it down to a single layer or something and attach.
Hannah, I did try changing it to Basic in Advanced Settings (pretty sure I've tried that before actually) to no avail.
Daniel I will try out that driver. I've got nothing to lose at this point.
I know crash reports are quite lengthy, but I will go ahead and paste it here. Hope that's ok.
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