Is there no plan to bring Photoshop or any other CC app to Linux just like Substance Painter is? Why would you support Substance Painter and not other apps of the CC ecosystem?
Allegorithmic only recently merged with Adobe, so it's possible that Substance was already available for Linux before the merge.
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I tried varius times over the last 15 years switching my complete workflow to Linux. Always to be limited by your Applications. I would love to use Linux without a dual boot drive for Windows, with Adobe CC installed. Especially since NVIDIA made a move a few days ago. Without Adobe I can run about 95% of my workflow software on Debian. Please make a move, too.
Do you know that I worked 30 years ago on a Silicon Graphics Workstation under the Irix OS, and Photoshop was available for that machine? Irix was Silicon Graphics flavour of a System V Unix. Linux is a flavour of Unix. It is not a problem to port a software to a different OS. Adobe did do that with their software multiple times. The difficulty is that the user base is not there.
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I really like Photoshop since its first versions and I do want to use it always when I need to work with images, BUT I hate Windows more and more and I'm using Linux OS's more often... I want to purchase Creative Cloud but I can't find Linux versions of Adobe software, so many people I know are forced to use Mac or windows JUST to RUN Adobe software.... but windows become worse and people trying to quit it and only because they can't use apps like Photoshop they still using it... do you have perspectives on supporting Linux?
So what solution do you have now for Linux OS (something stable and popular like Debian based)?
Unlikely that Adobe will ever support Linux. That market is infinitesimal and the potential to recoup the development cost it would take to convert a complex app like PS or others just isn't there. It stinks, but that's just the way it is.
...but then either users will search for their own solution for that problem (like using Wine, Virtual machine, etc) OR will start to use other software more often, eventually bypassing all functions of Photoshop (then it will be too late to start migration for Adobe, because really I know and heard of A LOT of DESIGN Agencies and Designers who switching or searching for solutions for switching from windows and even macs and Linux OS's are become stronger and better nowadays)...
Currently statistics which Adobe uses about popularity of OSs are wrong - many people forced to use OS/Platform (Win/Mac) just because of some apps they want to have...
"Currently statistics which Adobe uses about popularity of OSs are wrong"
Do you have inside info on Adobe's research and which statistics they use? I'd love to hear how they make desisions, if you're free to share this info.
I don't know what statistics Adobe uses because they haven't shared that with us. If you know, please share!
This is from w3schools, which says that at their last reporting, Linux is at 4%. When I scrolled down to previous years, I saw that this is the lowest they have been since 2008 when they were at 3.8%.
As to whether or not Adobe will ever support Linux, we don't know as they haven't told us. We can only give our personal opinions. Anyone with insider information would be under NDA.
Here's what we can tell you: Photoshop for Web is in beta and can be used by Linux. You need a subscription that includes Photoshop, which it sounds like you have.
Who's to say? Some programs last thirty years like PS, others disappear within three years despite using all the latest technology. Apps come and go and nobody can predict which ones will be successful and which ones won't. The rest is of no consequence. If you assume 4% of Linux users overall, how many of those are actually graphics designers or similar? Adobe thinks in millions of users, not 10000. This is a whole different thing than the various VFX compositing and 3D apps that are used on Linux and that in itself is still just a niche market. The numbers just don't add up even if no doubt Adobe could afford it financially and write off the losses.
I'm sure there must be loads of people who would dearly love to dump MSFT and it's stranglehold on Windows. There is of course Linux. Peppermint is moving from strength to strength, but there appears to be nothing doing in so far as support from Adobe for Linux.
To help us living 'on the edge' types, why not offer the older versions of Photoshop - even new Photoshop alone, but just for Linux?
To help us living 'on the edge' types, why not offer the older versions of Photoshop - even new Photoshop alone, but just for Linux?
Adobe only offers the current version and one previous of their apps. None of these are compatible with Linux. I've read that some folks install Photoshop using a VM or Wine.
Thanks, unfortunately a Creative Cloud subscription (the compounded cost) is really for regular business users, who can offset it, and not for the occasional use only of just one application.
Adobe are a business designed to make profit. They aren't part of your campaign to dump Microsoft. I don't understand the refererence to "offering" old versions for Linux. It would take years of development and tens of millions of dollars to convert for Linux, and they no longer work on old versions.
To help us living 'on the edge' types, why not offer the older versions of Photoshop - even new Photoshop alone, but just for Linux?
Thanks, unfortunately a Creative Cloud subscription (the compounded cost) is really for regular business users, who can offset it, and not for the occasional use only of just one application.
The Photography plan with 20 gb storage (annual) is deeply discounted and payable at $9.99 per month or in a lump sum. If that's out of your price range, I am wondering why you are asking about Photoshop for Linux at all? You can get a 7-day trial to see if PS for Web works for you. Be sure to cancel if it does not.
Thanks. The problem with Cloud is that it means funding a bundle of applications even if someone only wants one and for occasional use.
There was obviously profit in PS before this happened, owing to the ongoing versions and updates, and that was an affordable viable long term iniative.
Not everyone wants their work stored in the Cloud, but very heavy multiple size apps make it necessary as it swamps local storage space
I don't think there's a huge amount of cost in running an old version with Linux and clearing any unexpected bugs (AI?) . The outcome of bundling all the programs at higher cost has obviously been the movement to free equivalent applications, when all that really needs to happen is keeping an older one bug free.
"but there appears to be nothing doing in so far as support from Adobe for Linux"
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The problem with Cloud is that it means funding a bundle of applications even if someone only wants one and for occasional use.
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unfortunately a Creative Cloud subscription ... is really for regular business users
Hi Mary,
I'm confused. From your first post, it sounded as if you were interested in Adobe for Linux, but your later posts seem to object to the costs even if it were available, which it is not. Earlier versions of Photoshop will not work will Linux. Neither will current versions.
We are not allowed to recommend non-Adobe applications, but you might do a web search for "image editors" and "Linux" to see what comes up that you can afford and also works with Linux.
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