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P: Provide support for Linux (2011)

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April 27, 2011
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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.

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Dramenon

Community Manager

Can we get a sample file? And what texture you are trying to edit?
You can share to [email address removed as per forum guidelines].

While we continue to look into the issue... try this:

nVidia has an updated driver, as of September 5, https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/137614/en-us

It may help to resolve any issues.

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Hannah Nicollet

Community Manager

Hi Andrew,

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,
Hannah

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Sir Randolf

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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.

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous

Hi

There is no version of Photoshop available for Linux OS

There's a big discussion here about it

Photoshop for Linux OS?

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Sir Randolf

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That's too bad. Do you know when the Linux version will be available? If you need beta testers, I'm willing to help.

rpengale

Participating Frequently

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.

kristiank29252316

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You could use lightroom web, even though it's not fully functional, it's something.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

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.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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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.

diogofm

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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.

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Anonymous

diogofm wrote
Everyone knows that the Linux platform is one of the most used on the planet

Hi

You may want to check out the facts about that statement

The True Market Shares of Windows vs. Linux Compared

Photoshop on Linux has been discussed here

Photoshop for Linux OS?

roc97007

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It's a chicken-and-egg problem. The ONLY thing I still use Windows for is Adobe Creative Cloud. Everything else I use regularly either runs on Linux or runs out of a web browser. So I have servers running CentOS and laptops running Mint or Debian, but I have this one silly Windows box so that I can run Adobe Creative Cloud. It's ridiculous.

If Adobe CC ran on Linux, ANY version of Linux, I'd drop Windows and never look back. Windows is not a good operating system. For a very long time now, its only value has been that certain software only runs on it.

Macs aren't a good alternative. They're an overpriced, overdesigned, boutique product deliberately designed not to be upgradeable or repairable.

The world runs on Windows and Macs because, and only because, the software we need only runs on Windows and Macs.

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claus_01

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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?

TIA,

Claus

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Download in Windows.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

bJust like to vote for photoshop on Linux, currently don't have a CC subscription but I would in a heartbeat if CC was made available on linux. You could use mono maybe!

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