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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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JensEckervogt

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Hello everyone , why do you not release any softwares under Linux?

Sorry I don't care Windows because I am very scared to Windows. I am using since September 2018 with Ubuntu 18.04 and I cannot install Adobe software on wine because they are very sensitively.

Please release softwares under Linux! I thought you don't want release softwares under Linux. I recommend you have experience of XLib/Gtk3/4
We would love to test trail version or buy softwares under Linux.

Please stop use only Windows and macOS! We want Adobe's Developers should release under Linux.

I recommend you release installer of Adobe like VMWare's Installer.

If you don't worry about distros like Ubuntu, Mind, Solus, Redhat, OpenSuse or ArchLinux etc.

I hope you understand me. Sorry my bad English!

Best regards

AxelMatt

Community Expert

As far as I know there's actually no plan to support Linux.

But: If it's so important for you the please post in Abobe's Bug-/Wishlist-Forum (https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html) or like an existing entry.

This here is a public forum and not the support from Adobe. We are all normal users as you.

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

That made me curious but a few sentences in on this
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10332291
the curiosity waned ... and that was apparently filed 2017.

In any case I am not trying to discourage anyone from using Gimp, a few years back we even had to use it to salvage a file that Photoshop could not edit anymore because of a curious, off-canvas pixel-limit violation.

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ivframes

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Well I'm no software historian by any means, but initial Resynthesizer version goes back to 2008 by Paul Harrison. It includes both content aware fill for restructuring transparency and non-transparent things. Google says Content aware fill was introduced in PS CS5 in April 2010.

Now this all is rather meaningless in 2020, but the whole point was that GIMP made a long way and had some neat things ahead of its time.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I am not a Gimp user but I wonder if your history may not be a bit unclear on this.
Content-Aware functionality in Photoshop goes a while back already and probably incorporates different approaches – at least I don’t immediately see how the seam-carving-approach behind Content-Aware-Scale would figure in Content-Aware-Fill.
And Adobe would have to honor the patents that other software providers, even if it’s freeware, hold ...

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ivframes

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Spot on.
Not only wrong, I was unaware of how much GIMP improved over the last 10 years. For example, I didn't know that Content Aware tool in PS originated from GIMP's Resynthesizer filter (installed separately but still free as a bird). The more I know the program, the more "a-ha!" moments there are and I'm already feeling at home. At the same time it is forever being free. How cool is that?

Cheers for your progressive thinking Steven and teaching the kids.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Considering teaching GIMP to my daughter and some of her classmates and keeping PS in Virtualbox for the same reason. Linux support is so simple today there really is no reason not to support it. Gimp ports easily to any platform and is adequately robust and superior is some ways. If PS were a native install we would subscribe simply to support progressive thinking software. As it is open-source [think Android etc] is responding more quickly to consumers needs and desires [operating system support is a great example] so it makes more sense to direct students to platforms that do not only recognize "walled gardens." Cheers

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rhakbari

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As Linux is a big market of Operating systems in the Dev world so Adobe should consider releasing its products for Ubuntu/Debian linux too so that Linux users can also edit photos/videos on linux and the adobe increases its market share in the editing world..

This is a big requirement by the linux users in order to edit media professionally as linux is really good performance wise, I bet adobe products will perform amazing too on low end hardware which will lead to increasement of adobe users...

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

This is a user Forum, so you are not really addressing Adobe here, even though some Adobe employees thankfully have been dropping by.

But you can add your vote to the existing Feature Request for Photoshop to be released for Linux here:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/adobe_photoshop_for_linux

gener7

Community Expert

My sleepy bad...I see you already pointed it out, but I suppose it bears repeating. 🙂

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ivframes

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It wouldn't/should be an issue anymore considering Linux has gone long way since manual code compiling.

Not only there are fairly uniformed debian packages, but also flatpak, snap and others that work on every linux, regardless of the distro.

I don't think that's the issue at all, but probably some exclusivity towards Microsoft on the PC, or general opinion of the Open Source users that is totally different than of commercial products (and in a good way), so maybe Photoshop and other packages wouldn't see so many paid users.

Because, this back and forth with Adobe made me learn to use open source alternatives and their workflows. I realized how incredibly advanced RawTherapee is for RAW developing (far more than LR) and how much GIMP improved in every segment and even more advanced in certain areas than PS for photo editing. I still have PS in Virtualbox, just in case my job requires it, but so far, I'm yet to use it and will probably cancel my sub.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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I'm amazed Linux hasn't seen more love from adobe,
If they can get it to run on the dumpster fire's that are windows and ios; Linux should be a breeze.

the only real downside I can see is the mass of distro's they may look into supporting

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ivframes

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Since you already fully support Android (linux) I guess it's time for Adobe to finally accept Linux as a legitimate OS and start supporting it via CCloud.

I wouldn't think twice if PS and LR would be supported natively in Linux. Do you know how many Linux users long for your programs and keep Windows boot only to run Adobe apps? 😕😕

Every other company out there got some sort of linux support, even Steam built their port and actively makes Proton, granting access to majority of their Windows-native games with close to zero performance penalties. Something like that wasn't possible not so long ago!

And oh - DaVinci app is there! Need we say more?!

Come on guys, it's 2020 almost. It's time! 🙂

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