Yes, please support Linux. This would be a huge milestone. Thanks...

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Anonymous shared this idea · December 11, 2018 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminPatrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager, Adobe DVA) responded · March 23, 2020

Hello everyone,

after looking into both technical viability and current market needs, it’s unfortunately become obvious that we’re not going to be able to act on this request in the near future.

I wanted thank everyone for the considerate and passionate discussion on this thread. This has been a great example of a meaningful conversation over a controversial subject that I don’t take for granted.

Cheers,
Patrick

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AdminPatrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager, Adobe DVA) responded · December 12, 2018

Hello everyone,

first of all: thanks to all the people who joined in the last two days to vote and comment on this particular item. Please stick around and tell us what else you’d like to see implemented or improved moving forward.

If you were wondering why this post was offline for a couple of hours: it’s because of this quick surge in votes. It triggered a spam filter (and it took me a little while to figure out how to undo this without losing the comments).

Since several people posted in the meantime about Adobe not being interested in your feedback, let me assure you that this is about as far from the reality as it gets. We truly appreciate your candid feedback.

That said, a word of caution: while this item is now at the top due to a person with a good following on Twitter creating awareness, it doesn’t mean it immediately becomes our top priority. It’s been voted for since April, and never made it to the top 100 before this dramatic surge on Dec 11th.

And yet another word of caution in an attempt to set expectations correctly: while we’re gonna use this request as another trigger to redo market analysis for the need to port to linux, it’s been true for many years that the vast majority of our user base wouldn’t consider it as an alternative to currently supported platforms. Unless that has changed significantly, keeping the balance between dealing with other request versus adding another platform might not make it viable to add support for linux.

As I’ve worked for a company doing Win, MacOS and Linux prior to joining Adobe, I’ll add a bit of color to this request: doing Linux isn’t really about adding one OS, it’s at least several, if not many. Putting software that’s demanding on CPU, GPU and then some onto a linux system means developing and testing against several of the major flavours if you expect great results.
It’s also true that our large partner eco-system is mostly not on Linux today, so you’d be losing a ton of functionality outside the core application for years to come.

In a nutshell: this isn’t a simple thing to do – but we’re gonna take another hard look as to what’s the demand as I already mentioned above.

Stay tuned – and thanks again for coming to this forum to voice your ideas.

Patrick
Prinicpal Product Manager, Editing

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Lucas Miranda commented · July 01, 2020 07:04 · Flag as inappropriate

Please !
I switched to DaVinci because of that

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Alberto Rolando Maconha commented · June 27, 2020 08:43 · Flag as inappropriate

adobe for linux! what are you waiting for? unless... you have actions on MS and Mac... cause you know.... if you port your suite to Linux, MS and mac would loose and impressive amount of users! Im testing Manjaro Linux... and im using DaVinci, Sketch, inkscape and Gimp... professional designer here... i would totally pay for adobe, though... i love the soft im using, but your suite is freaking awesome (except for DaVinci, **** what a fine piece of software)

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Alberto Rolando Maconha commented · June 27, 2020 08:42 · Flag as inappropriate

adobe for linux! what are you waiting for? unless... you have actions on MS and Mac... cause you know.... if you port your suite to Linux, MS and mac would loose and impressive amount of users! Im testing Manjaro Linux... and im using DaVinci, Sketch, inkscape and Gimp... professional designer here... i would totally pay for adobe, though... i love the soft im using, but your suite is freaking awesome (except for DaVinci, **** what a fine piece of software)

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Aryan Khandelwal commented · June 25, 2020 02:46 · Flag as inappropriate

I need photoshop on ubuntu

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Wandrille Roncé commented · June 20, 2020 03:04 · Flag as inappropriate

Please !
I switched to DaVinci because of that

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Richard Yao commented · June 18, 2020 20:09 · Flag as inappropriate

Plenty of people never bothered to ask because we did not expect Adobe to take our requests seriously. If you are not going to port your tools to Linux, at least try to get them working in Wine.

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Eivind Dahl commented · June 18, 2020 14:21 · Flag as inappropriate

Definitely Linux

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Ender Veiga Bueno commented · June 18, 2020 10:58 · Flag as inappropriate

Another one for Linux

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Royce Whitaker commented · June 17, 2020 17:12 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add linux support

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Nime Lorm commented · June 13, 2020 09:06 · Flag as inappropriate

Please, add Ubuntu support at least. All linux community would be extremely happy only for this one.
"doing Linux isn’t really about adding one OS, it’s at least several, if not many ... means developing and testing against several of the major flavours"

It's not true. The vast majority simply have no choice.
"the vast majority of our user base wouldn’t consider it as an alternative to currently supported platforms"

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Christopher Overbeck commented · June 10, 2020 16:23 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add linux support

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Cristi Constantin commented · June 10, 2020 09:03 · Flag as inappropriate

Linux please!!

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Diego Melzer commented · June 01, 2020 13:39 · Flag as inappropriate

Libertad!!!!!!

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Diego Melzer commented · June 01, 2020 13:38 · Flag as inappropriate

si por favor!!!!!!!

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Евгений Мойкин commented · May 23, 2020 16:09 · Flag as inappropriate

Adobe Let's support Ubuntu community!

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Gabriel Moreno commented · May 22, 2020 08:14 · Flag as inappropriate

I look forward to an adobe version for linux.

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Arthur Uberti commented · May 14, 2020 02:51 · Flag as inappropriate

C'mon on Adobe, do something!

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Andrus Pihel commented · May 06, 2020 04:11 · Flag as inappropriate

The big corporations does not care about customers. They care only about stock value. Only short term measures are valued because the long term does not fit for stock holders. They need right now the money, money, money. Luckily the people are not idiots and use the alternative program like DaVinci Resolve.

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Richard Bertoldo commented · May 06, 2020 03:44 · Flag as inappropriate

I have ditched Adobe Premier Pro after Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7.

I made the change to Linux and DaVinci Resolve. I paid good money for CS3 Creative Suite which I can no longer use because it is no longer supported. I moved to CS6 and have had nothing but problems running it on Windows OS.

If you seriously think there isn't enough demand for running Adobe products on Linux OS then your are blind. AlI you need to do is look at the number of people no longer subscribing to Adobe Creative Cloud.

I would also like to add that companies such as Microsoft, Adobe and Apple have all used Linux for free in one way or another and its time you give back something to those who have supported your products for so many years.

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sajal mojumder commented · May 06, 2020 00:37 · Flag as inappropriate

I want to need adobe software on Linux

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