P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I was wondering if Adobe released any Photoshop versions for Linux? Because I looked everywhere in Adobe's site but I could not find any information.

[Conrad_C]

The chances are low.

It's been discusssed for many years, there is an existing feature request with 32 pages of comments.

The request was submitted in April 2011.

The thread was closed to comments over 14 years later, after the request was marked “Declined.”

From what I understand, it isn’t just about market share, porting over one application’s code, or how many Linux users are interested in paying a non-trivial subscription fee, although those are all factors. It’s also about the availability on Linux of the wide range of foundation technologies that the applications rely on, such as color management, printing, fonts, HDR display support, etc. which are provided by macOS and Windows, as well as how willing Adobe is to port over all of their cloud sync technologies that tie the apps together (Creative Cloud Libraries, Adobe Fonts, Cloud Documents…) which Adobe considers non-optional. And which distro to settle on. But I admit I don’t know how mature the OS technologies are on Linux.