Adobe Customer Care: There Hasn't Been Enough Demand For Linux

[danmcgrew]

Looks like they may have removed the request. It went from under 1.5k votes and ~400 comments yesterday to over 3.6k votes and over 1.7k comments on it before it disappeared. Going to the link now brings you back to the general feedback page for Premier.

How can we show demand for it if they remove requests for it???

Edit: they still have the other two, but they aren't nearly as known about:

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911356-cross-application-workflows/suggestions/33941449-ubuntu-gnu-linux

https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/17194553-linux-version-of-adobe-xd

...And then #86 wrote

"Lol the power of a Phoronix article publication?" Perhaps...

12-10-2018, 04:06 PM--#29:
"Someone; anyone--

Please give a rational, solid reason as to how a piece of software one must rent--by the month, or year--is a good deal for the user.
When you arrive at the only possible conclusion, send that to Adobe."

and...

12-10-2018, 07:32 PM--#57
"Example(s) of what will straighten out Adobe quicker than anything else...

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/pro...avinciresolve/

and
“The Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve 15: Editing, Color, Audio, and Effects (The Blackmagic Design Learning Series"--Amazon, et. al."

[funkboy]

They've got to be kidding. I think it's more like their PLM & marketing people live under a rock.

But now the horse has fled the barn, & anyone wanting Lightroom on FLOSS OSs has switched to DarkTable:

https://www.darktable.org/about/features/

[brrrrttttt]

Why would you use software from Adobe? Honestly, they are the guys responsible for flash. Seriously, why?

No, that was Macromedia. I take it you weren't around back then judging by your comment. There wasn't an alternative to Flash, it was well ahead of anything else of the time.

[lucrus]

There's no Linux. There's a fucking constant mess.

Nice trolling, congrats.

[danmcgrew]

Nice trolling, congrats.

...and subtle, too.

[AFozzy]

It would be could if we could push other companies in the same way. Here is a link to vote for AutoDesk Inventor on linux.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/autodesk-inventor-professional-for-linux-redhat-centos-ubuntu/idi-p/5112010

[lectrode]

I'm happy to report that the poll is back up! A recent post by the Adobe account:

"Hi, a steep increase in upvotes triggered our spam alerts. That is what occurred. We are investigating the cause of such an increase and will respond accordingly after we check everything out. Thanks for understanding. ^KM"

As of this post, the request has been merged into an existing one and has over 5k votes.

[chithanh]

Good that the poll is back up. But the statement by that Adobe Product Manager does not seem very... enlightened. Also it contradicts the Adobe statement on Twitter:

a steep increase in upvotes triggered our spam alerts.

this quick surge in votes. It triggered a spam filter

So which is it? An alert or a filter? If it was only an alert as the Adobe tweet says, then a human decision to take action or not would have been involved in removing the poll.

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.

That's only part of the truth. In fact the reason is that it got posted in Linux news websites and communities everywhere. And that people were previously unaware about the Adobe Uservoice account.

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.

That is also a non-issue. It would be completely ok if only a single distro and release would be officially supported (e.g. the most recent LTS release of Ubuntu). Leave it to the community to figure out how to make the software run, perhaps in a less optimal way, on other distros.

[fuzz]

So which is it? An alert or a filter? If it was only an alert as the Adobe tweet says, then a human decision to take action or not would have been involved in removing the poll.

You are seriously over thinking this.

[Danielsan]

Random consideration:

• Why do many people think obvious using Linux for server purpose while have difficult to think to use Mac or Win for graphics?
• Why do many people want Adobe on Linux but not GNU on Windows?
• Which is the increased value on having closed software on GNU?
• Why do not many people ask for a porting of Adobe on FreeBSD, it makes more sense than Gnu?
• Win10 and WSL isn't enough?
• Why do not many people ask for a porting of Adobe on ReactOS, it still make more sense than Gnu?
• If you are not a professional why don't you spend some time learning FLOSS graphic applications?
• IF you are a professional why don't you spend some time learning FLOSS graphic applications?

To finish, stop asking for closed software on GNU!