Comments on: Wine offers improved Photoshop-on-Linux support

By: jon banquer

jon banquer — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:32:53 +0000

I don’t know what all these Linux guys are snivelling about … I use Photoshop on Irix all the time. Version 3 but it still does the job :D

By: Robert Kent

Robert Kent — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:52:48 +0000

Adobe, please reconsider creating a version of CS5 and beyond for Linux.

At the very least, please ensure that they are compatible with Wine.

Btw… does anyone know if there is anything similar to Wine for Mac OSX applications? If not, why not?

By: ben

ben — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:30:48 +0000

Only CS2!!?? Come on, it’s CS5 now.

I must admit it is really frustrated to know this.
I’ve just tried to install Adobe Master Collection onto Ubuntu 10.04, but failed due to damaged or missed Adobe Application Manager. I am wondering when will the solution come true.

Adobe should provide linux version of their products, since Apple is attacking Adobe. If Adobe make Linux version of Flash CS/Photoshop, many designers will consider to move to Ubuntu.

In our company, we are considering switch to Ubuntu, and using it as the standard computer. Less virus issues, and faster speed, more stable..why not? But Adobe is the only concern now, Adobe is really a lazy company, as Jobs said. It will lose market soon.

By: rony

rony — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:51:56 +0000

yes if adobe release all products for linux then i will through away windows from my all pcs and lappies.

By: David

David — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:36:08 +0000

If Microsoft has no involvement with Adobe, then why can’t Adobe make ALL of its products run on Linux and make more money from sales as a result?
It can’t be impossible to achieve, as many programs that run on Windows also have a Linux version. TrueCrypt is an example and OpenOffice.org is another and so on. I think Adobe are just being lazy, don’t care or both?
I would be very happy to see software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator etc. run on Linux. I wonder if Adobe staff are reading this and taking it seriously?????? I’m trying to help both Adobe and their customers with this comment – really I am.

By: Edward Jones

Edward Jones — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:34:53 +0000

i think that adobe is gay for not making photoshop, it is just incouraging people to hack it

By: Vyke

Vyke — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:37:49 +0000

I think Adobe should offer CS products (at least photoshop) for Linux simply because this is currently an open door for competition to steal market share. If I were a company quietly developing an application to compete with Adobe’s Photoshop and I realized that a large percentage of technical users would switch to Linux if an adequate product allowed them to edit images (better than gimp…more at the level of Photoshop) then I would gain a significant share of Adobe’s business simply by releasing my product. This is not a chance to satisfy the 0.5% (as guessed above, much higher in my opinion) but instead a chance to prevent a much higher percentage from bailing on Adobe products when a good Linux alternative pops up.

By: OuahabiX

OuahabiX — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:07:30 +0000

I don’t think Adobe will port their great stuffs soon to Linux, I mean something like PhotoShop or AfterEffects, but seriously I wasn’t taking GIMP that heavy way until and finally I ended up doing the same things I do with PS on Windows with GIMP on Ubuntu, even the PS brushes are loadable now either they are .abr, .gbr …etc or the rest of the other formats, and let alone the bless of using Blender alongside GIMP for 3D modeling objects and the other manipulations, companies who are porting their Apps to Linux are already gaining an early ground for the future like Autodesk, it has already launched the Linux version of Maya and some great effects tools like FumeFX and others, hopefully PS CS4 is running now somehow normally on Linux through Wine which I wish that it will get improved by time, I mean by the work of both teams, Adobe & WineHQ teams, and all this MS is manipulating Adobe would be just a hoaxes.
But come’on Linux is faster, Smoother and more flexible, and it can run what we want to run at the startup or remove what we don’t which gave us a boost to make our speedy mega-PC a reality, and I believe if Adobe ports After Effects and PS to Linux I bet that most of the Film Making Studios will switch and revert then to Linux that will save them hundreds of thousands of dollars they used to buy licenses with, and they can focus more after that on paying for the Software they use not the OS they used their Software on its platform.
Anyway, good luck everybody!

By: fox_mulder

fox_mulder — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:41:34 +0000

The reason why everyone uses and will use Windows is Photoshop, surely Adobe knows that fact and surely they stay in business relation with MS and Mac, so dont except a change in future.
The truth is, everyone can use it on Linux allready without problems, and every linux user will blame adobe because everyone is forced to use portable or cracked versions to get it run on compatible layers.
Even Google knows that fact and is doing ‘good’ work like pay wine-devs for getting that work done Adobe never wont make
You at Adobe are bastards you greatly take ressources out of gpl and linux and dont get us – as a community – anything back
Linux will take over the world, dont you see it?
Be a part of it or go die
fox

By: Mark Armstrong

Mark Armstrong — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:07:50 +0000

I moved from Windows to Mac last year, and got CS3 to go with it.
Carbon is C++ isn’t it? So, the Mac and Windows versions probably shared some code. Cocoa is Objective C. And, I imagine Microsoft is probably pushing you to do things in .NET (perhaps managed C++).
I wish you well in your endeavor. Am impatient for the Cocoa Adobe apps, but can understand the work involved.

By: Antoine Nélisse

Antoine Nélisse — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:47:49 +0000

Hi John,
You asked for statistics about the growth of GNU/Linux users ratio… here they come ;-)
These statistics are those of internet users all across Europe. A large part if not all client computers running Adobe CS* has a connection to the internet. These surveys can only give us hints, though, but I think they are relevant with the debate here.
Surveys are from the AT Internet Institute (formerly known as Xiti Monitor).
The shares of the main 3 OS families in january 2007 were :
Windows – 95.64%
Mac OS – 3.23%
Linux – 0.73%
The same in february 2009 are :
Windows – 93.82%
Mac OS – 4.59%
Linux – 1.24%
This shows us that many people left Windows for Mac OS & Linux. The reason might be, according to ATII, the poor performances of Windows Vista, and the improvement of Mac OSX and Linux. So there IS a “wind of change” coming, and I guess it will get bigger as time goes.
My question is : what is the difference between Mac users and Linux users ? Mac has “only” 4.6% of users. Still, they got their native version. More and more companies and govs (France, the UK, Belgium, Switzerland,…) switch to Linux, preferring to pay for support than for the OS itself.
You always tell us Adobe could port the CS to Linux if there were enough users, but this is an endless circle. Many users wait for Adobe to do so before switching to Linux.
By creating the offer, you create the demand ;-)
[Thanks for the hard data, Antoine. I'm a little pressed for time, but I appreciate the quantitative data. I can at least mention that as part of the Mac Cocoa architectural rework, we're endeavoring to make the Photoshop code base more portable. It's a big project. --J.]

By: JT

JT — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:53:54 +0000

Well dreamweaver is a waste of time in general (homesite still is a better program) but we definitely need photoshop on Ubutu.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:40:37 +0000

Why not provide an “installer” like “ID” have done with their game franchises for linux. Users buy the Windows/OSX version and download an installer from a torrent or ftp site that provides the vital linux files and copies the relevant libraries from the CD/DVD. Putting a linux specific version of CS3 or CS4 out is a big ask for an OS with such a small market share, but delivering an installer would only cost development time.
Just an idea.
With Government’s all over the world and the UK Government putting FOSS on an equal footing, something needs to happen sooner or later.

By: sheldon

sheldon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:43:27 +0000

the only reson im using windows is because of photoshop

By: NoDaddy.com

NoDaddy.com — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:19:17 +0000

Does adobe use linux for their webserver?
Does adobe use linux for their PBX?
Does adobe use linux for their helpdesk?
[Who cares? --J.]