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.

[Mylenium]

Unless you put up with Wine or any other virtualization/ emulation software and their quirks, then no, CC apps cannot be run on Linux.

Mylenium

[MonXyo]

I will disagree.... i am a full time video producer and photgrapher. My last 7 paychecks have relied solely on Gimp, Kdenlive, Davinci resolve, Rawtherapee, Audacity, reaper and natron. Spent 3 months learning all these and the distros i currently use Are> Manjaro, Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop OS, KDE Neon and recently MX linux Xfc. I also teach FOSS and i have to say,,, moving forward all the way. As a 15 year MAC USER and 8 year Windows User, was fedup up of lack of upgradability, over pricing, viruses, updates etc... I have a 11 year old that loves ubuntu and is impressed with performance. I sold my macs, and bough 2 2018 Dells, and built a AMD workstation..

All these for the price of a M1 MACBOOK PRO... COME ON..... Adobe should code PS and Premiere AT LEAST, to give it a try... And if they are wise enough, you could charge 25% less to linux users in return of community support and so on.... but any way, might be utopic..but something is true... LINUX IS GROWING, OPEN SOURCE is the future.... Remember... still a couple of wars and pandemics to come...

peace.

[ParticleFeever]

I read from CrossOver CEO - a very experienced developer - that this is the
year of Linux. I am kinda skeptical of a big turn in the market, but what I
see in the last distros is a lot of potential. Microsoft and Apple will
feel the impact this time, and Adobe will lose a lot of users by keeping
this policy of macOS and Windows only.

[Conrad_C]

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ParticleFeever wrote:
I read from CrossOver CEO - a very experienced developer - that this is the year of Linux. I am kinda skeptical of a big turn in the market

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Skepticism is probably well founded. Although I welcome Linux as another alternative (I'm not trying to be negative about it), I chuckled reading that, because someone proclaiming “This is the year of Linux on the desktop!” is a sort of running gag in tech history, kind of like how we say nuclear fusion power is always 10 years in the future…no matter what year it is. For example, someone on Reddit asked, “When did someone first say, ‘this is the year of the Linux desktop?’ ” They figured people have been saying it since 1998… so, for almost a quarter of a century.

[gerardp83748907]

Adobe has a Substance Painter client for Linux on Steam. Linux's image editing, manipulation and overall the creative  tools market has a lot of room to grow and would be enormously beneficial for many developers to switch to Linux. 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? I'd love to use Photoshop without tinkering wine or virtualization, and along the years I've been told by many people that they won't switch to Linux because they are missing Photoshop.

[jane-e]

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gerardp83748907 wrote:

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?

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Allegorithmic only recently merged with Adobe, so it's possible that Substance was already available for Linux before the merge.

You can upvote and add your comments to this thread in the "Ideas" section for the developers to track: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-provide-support-for-linux/idi-p/12250371

Note, though, that the thread says there are no plans to develop Photoshop for Linux.

Jane

[liczba23278986lbh9]

Hi, i've just been wondering if there is any work or even a plan to ship photoshop for linux? Linux has really improved recently and with flatpak it's not longer that hard platform to maintain as it used to be. I think people would love Photoshop on Linux because gimp isn't as good.

I've also seen a petition that shows there is a some type of a demand for Adobe products for Linux (https://chng.it/c5Zvv7CwwX)

[Сало23421135i7u6]

Hello Dear Adobe! Please make a GNU/Linux support for your awesome products!

With love, Artur.

[John T Smith]

Cloud on Linux will NOT happen https://community.adobe.com/t5/the-lounge/waiting-for-linux-native-softwares/td-p/10943296

[dhdus]

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.

[Rohit25450984idab]

Adobe doesn’t support Linux because Adobe believes that the Linux platform is not ready for mainstream use. In addition, Adobe believes that the (link removed by moderator) does not provide a good overall user experience.

Are Adobe Products Coming To Linux?

The short answer is that (link removed by moderator) hasn’t specifically made a decision to not support Linux, but they haven’t actively developed products for it either. There are several reasons why this might be the case.

First and foremost, Adobe has been traditionally very focused on windows-based systems and doesn’t have as much of a presence in the Linux world as some other software companies. This may change slowly over time, but right now it’s only a relatively small portion of their overall business.

[Trevor.Dennis]

The total number of CC subscriptions is now approaching 10 million.

By D Fosse

Dag, I had to smile at that.  According to Jim on ProDesignTools it's more than doubled since you posted the above comment in 2017.  Goodness, it's jumped up again since I last checked.  There are now in excess of 26 million people with paid for Creative Cloud accounts. In fact, the document Jim got his figures from was published in December last year, so if subscriptions have carried on growing at the same rate (one million per quarter) there are now more than 28 million CC subscribers.  

[D Fosse]

Which, incidentally, is the population of Tokyo, New York and London put together - but only a third of the total UK population. Seems they have untapped markets 😉

[davescm]

@Rohit25450984idab As you are not an employee of Adobe , you cannot state what Adobe 'believes' or what decisions it has made internally. Your opinion is yours.

Similarly, I am also not an employee, but can also give my opinion which is that this is simply a business decision. Does the company spend it's money on  X or Y and what will be the return on investment of doing so.

Dave

[jane-e]

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beshoyn45413706 wrote:

So why Adobe company doesn't make Photoshop and Illustrator available for Linux OR can it be online service.

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Photoshop for Web is in beta now and can be used online. You need to have a subscription that includes Photoshop to be able to use it.

Here are the FAQs. There are eight sections, including system requirements.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/photoshop-web-faq.html

The forum for Photoshop for Web (beta) is here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta/ct-p/ct-photoshop-beta

Jane

[jane-e]

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davescm wrote:

Rohit25450984idab As you are not an employee of Adobe , you cannot state what Adobe 'believes' or what decisions it has made internally. Your opinion is yours.

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It may or may not have been Rohit's opinion either, Dave, as they simply copied and pasted from the website linked to behind the words "Linux Platform", self-described as a blogging platform.

Jane

[Olinda Mídias]

Pleno 2022, ano da copa, ano da tecnologia e a adobe não lança uma versão pra linux.

Sim, eu sei que sse assunto já render muito, mas a insatisfação continua incomodando portanto esse post vale de lembrete.

[kglad]

that's an adobe business decision.  but it's pretty easy to see why no linux: 

many linux users think all software should be free and there aren't enough (that would pay) to make it worth adobe's while.

but these are user forums, so if you think you have a novel suggestion that's not been assessed by adobe (you'd be wrong), but if you think you're correct, you can make a suggestion to adobe here, for applicable apps, use https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html for others, use https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

[Peru Bob]

See the reply by Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021) here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/the-lounge-discussions/waiting-for-linux-native-softwares-cloud-on-li...

[Abambo]

Moving this from Download & Install to The Lounge.

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.

This question has been answered multiple times.

[Nancy OShea]

Seu sonho, pesadelo para a Adobe.

Você pode usar:

• Windows 11, Windows 10,
• MacOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina,
• iOS, Android, Windows Mobile...

[Moderator merged with original Linux topic.]

[Pr0Serg]

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)?

[Mylenium]

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.

Mylenium 

[Pr0Serg]

...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...

[Test Screen Name]

"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.