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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Elise commented · January 03, 2020 23:35 · Flag as inappropriate

It could be the rain b4 the flood.. millions of people might turn to ubtuntu linux or whateva because theyll have everything they need in one place and then microsoft can finally get the point that bloaty spyware sux. But also it could be the tipping point for wider spread adoption which leads to more support and apps and yeah. Adobe could literally be the thingi that makes linux huge.. like market share wise. It would force apple and microsoft to adapt and become better. Gaming and photo/video editing is all that holds people to windows bloat and crapOS. Itd be great for schools too.. my school is offering coding courses and they run on linux on arch and the puppy one i think and ubuntu.

I created an adobe id just to write this comment and be able to vote but theres thousands of people who wont.

So yeah.. DEWIT!!! :)

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Henrique Guerra commented · January 02, 2020 03:25 · Flag as inappropriate

Linux please!!!

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Alistair commented · January 01, 2020 07:49 · Flag as inappropriate

It would be great :D

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Radu Nanescu commented · December 29, 2019 15:41 · Flag as inappropriate

Linux community is growing pretty fast and valve figured it out way before you did apparently :)
i think adobe products will boost this trend like crazy!

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Brian Glenn commented · December 28, 2019 00:21 · Flag as inappropriate

Just would like to throw in that this is something I have been waiting for since about 2007. I hope this comes to fruition eventually.

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Ádám Liszkai commented · December 20, 2019 03:15 · Flag as inappropriate

Could you port it to the browser via WebASM like AutoCAD did?

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mateus silva commented · December 14, 2019 21:44 · Flag as inappropriate

we want the products from adobe for linux!!!

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Guilherme Bellotti commented · December 13, 2019 11:20 · Flag as inappropriate

1 ano e nada....

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Michele Perrone commented · December 11, 2019 10:35 · Flag as inappropriate

Please, support GNU/Linux!

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Zacrovsk . commented · December 11, 2019 06:51 · Flag as inappropriate

Linux is growing more and more, and with Adobe support will grow absurdly ...

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Matthew Farley commented · December 08, 2019 05:40 · Flag as inappropriate

The argument about "multiple flavors of Linux" is greatly solved with things like Flatpak / AppImage / Snap packages. Please grant us all our Christmas Wish and do this!

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Sanjay Addya commented · December 07, 2019 09:23 · Flag as inappropriate

Please support Linux

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Anderson Rogério commented · December 06, 2019 11:00 · Flag as inappropriate

I love linux and would love to have Adobe Creative Cloud on it, it would be awesome. Please adobe give us this privilege

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Anja Nielsen commented · December 05, 2019 00:03 · Flag as inappropriate

I'm using Linux and I do design work, so it would be nice if Adobes apps were available on Linux. For now I have to use Adobe alternatives instead

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Johnny McNeil commented · December 03, 2019 11:02 · Flag as inappropriate

The only thing preventing me from switching to Linux is the fact that the Creative Cloud is not supported. I feel held back by Adobe at the moment

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daniel moretti commented · November 29, 2019 10:27 · Flag as inappropriate

I don't care if I have to pay an additional fee for the linux version, but please make one, this will be a milestone in a huge upcoming technological change

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Christian Dissen commented · November 26, 2019 00:24 · Flag as inappropriate

As a designer I work with the CC everyday and rely on your products. I really like them!

BUT it's painful regarding Windows software OR Apple Hardware.

These two big companies are force feeding everyone their outdated ways of what customers should tolerate. Crapy and stiff software or crapy and stiff hardware.

LINUX = customised hard- and software = the next generation

Thanks :)

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jordan eisman commented · November 22, 2019 10:37 · Flag as inappropriate

They cant even build a stable version for Mac OS. and you think they are gonna devote resources to Linux?> to the 6 or 7 users who use linux to edit video? yea sure..

why dont you guys fix bugs and stop adding stuff>? why dont you allow users access to previous versions that actually work, instead do forcing them to upgrade so you can justify a spike in monthly cc fees.

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JUAN MATA GONZALEZ commented · November 20, 2019 20:50 · Flag as inappropriate

Linux Please

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Tadhg Boyle commented · November 20, 2019 18:58 · Flag as inappropriate

Literally the only thing holding me back from Linux is Adobe, would be a god send if we got this ported

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