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

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AdminPatrick Palmer (Director of Product Management, Pro Video and Motion Design, Adobe DVA) responded · Mar 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 (Director of Product Management, Pro Video and Motion Design, Adobe DVA) responded · Dec 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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Basil K Y commented · August 1, 2020 1:13 AM · Report

No point in crying here for Linux support. Linux market share is rising by breaking records in the last few months. Just wait patiently. In future, Adobe will be forced to support Linux for their own existence.

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Vadim Andreyev commented · July 27, 2020 9:44 AM · Report

Still no Linux support? What happened? Is Adobe having a hard times? Will it be closed soon? Maybe it's time to switch from Adobe products, obviously this company has problems and apparently their software will have no support soon. Sad story of Adobe, it was a great company back in the days.

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Valerio Giuffrida commented · July 26, 2020 10:33 AM · Report

How shortsighted people at Adobe are.
Technical viability: I read here (https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/premiere-pro-programming-language/td-p/8721554?page=1) that Premiere is mostly written in C++. By putting some #ifdef __linux__ and replace the required system calls, you should be able to (relatively) quickly do the job. I can bet that a similar programming trick is already in place to compile it for MAC, which is a unix-like operating system. So, a lot of work for porting it on linux is already there. You need some fine-tuning.
Market needs: not only a lot of people will definitely use it (me included), but also a lot of institutions (e.g., HEI). You will have the same market you already have.

You should say the real reason. Giving that the latest version of Adobe Reader for linux was issued 7 years ago and seems an ackward porting of the windows version, you should say the truth. Adobe does not have any interest in that, because MS and Apple are our buddy and we dont want to upset them. Being crystal clear would be nice to the people who pay to use this product.

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Albert Jelica commented · July 10, 2020 7:04 AM · Report

yes!!!

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Leonardo Marconato commented · July 6, 2020 2:25 PM · Report

I wanna work on linux. I use Ubuntu Studio and, for now, I use only free program. But I need more quality and comfort. Premiere is very comfortable and is quality, but don't run on Linux. Mac is not for me and windows have a lot of problems.
Please, I don't want to hear anymore "Linux is for nerd, it have only bad surrogate programs"

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Lucas Miranda commented · July 1, 2020 7:04 AM · Report

Please !
I switched to DaVinci because of that

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Alberto Rolando Maconha commented · June 27, 2020 8:43 AM · Report

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 8:42 AM · Report

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 2:46 AM · Report

I need photoshop on ubuntu

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Wandrille Roncé commented · June 20, 2020 3:04 AM · Report

Please !
I switched to DaVinci because of that

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Richard Yao commented · June 18, 2020 8:09 PM · Report

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 2:21 PM · Report

Definitely Linux

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Ender Veiga Bueno commented · June 18, 2020 10:58 AM · Report

Another one for Linux

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Royce Whitaker commented · June 17, 2020 5:12 PM · Report

Please add linux support

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Nime Lorm commented · June 13, 2020 9:06 AM · Report

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 4:23 PM · Report

Please add linux support

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Cristi Constantin commented · June 10, 2020 9:03 AM · Report

Linux please!!

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Diego Melzer commented · June 1, 2020 1:39 PM · Report

Libertad!!!!!!

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Diego Melzer commented · June 1, 2020 1:38 PM · Report

si por favor!!!!!!!

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Евгений Мойкин commented · May 23, 2020 4:09 PM · Report

Adobe Let's support Ubuntu community!

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