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.

[Lumigraphics]

I am agenda-free and don't care what you do. I'm merely trying to inject some reality into your ramblings.

[zgRedka]

@davescm one comment about "Adobe already said no - 3 years ago" would be enough. I assure You, I read every comment, and You do not have to repeat Yourself.

[zgRedka]

@LumigraphicsYou are welcome to leave this thread now.

[Lumigraphics]

I'll thank you for not telling me what to do.

[zgRedka]

Nobody asked for Your opinion, thank You. I am waiting for an official Adobe response. Meantime, You are welcome to continue to comment, nothing wrong with additional exposure. Once I get response from them this year, I can gladly close this thread and ask them again 5 years later, if I won't give up.

[Lumigraphics]

Good luck with all that.

[Park Street Printers]

After looking into relative performance of the same hardware under different software environments, I have to hope that Adobe phases out support for DirectX, as it is atrociously slow versus Vulkan and especially Metal. I have a friend with a Hackintosh that also runs Windows 11 and Linux (don't remember the distro), and under the Black Magic performance test doodad (my memory for names is very hazy), he gets about 1.7x the framerate for 8k under Vulkan (in Linux) and over 3x with Metal in MacOS. I'm considering trying to go the Hackintosh route for a triple-boot system, too. It's a ton of work, but Metal is amazing. Anyway, since DirectX is so terrible, and Vulkan is now on Windows systems too (I use it a lot), maybe that will be a kind of bridge to eventual (far future?) Linux support? I know that I said it was a non-starter earlier this year, but I do wonder...

[Messa-]

We need linux support

[Олександр5DB7]

Photoshop for Linux is required. This is how Steam Deck is currently, it is designed not only for games and could easily attract new subscribers.

[Ged_Traynor]

@Олександр5DB7 I don't think that's ever going to happen

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux-2011/idi-p/1225...

[davepastern]

Please offer consumers options to run Photoshop and LRc natively on GNU/Linux workstations.  

OS X has around ~8% of the desktop users worldwide and GNU/Linus is around 4%.  

It would garner much respect from the open source community.

Cheers,

Dave

[johnlee16]

Is there any chance Adobe will be configuring photoshop to run natively on linux platforms , from what I'm seeing around various forums and posts more and more users are migrating away from Microsoft and installing a linux based distro , I know you can run both with a dual boot system, but thats not the same. Further, I'm not interested in the workarounds to make it happen as there is always some sort of trade off which is not an option for me.

Regards John

[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.