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Lightroom: Provide support for Linux
Lightroom for Linux - is it possible? Most my friends and I need it, because of not using Windows and current Linux tools can't get so great instruments for raw preprocessing and organizing...
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pierre_courtejoie
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10 years ago
It's a question that has been asked many times in other venues about Photoshop, and the message I always heard is that the market research hinted that there might not be enough Linux users that would want to pay for the software. Not enough versus the cost of porting, and maintaining a Linux version (Quality Assurance, for instance), and also that the linux market is too fragmented, and that the necessary groundwork might not be there. (color management, etc.)
But I guess that we'll hear from engineers.
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dantull
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10 years ago
Lightroom probably has a lower porting effort than (say) Photoshop since it is smaller in general and many of the pieces are very portable (the Lua interpreter, SQLite, and much of the app is already in platform agnostic Lua scripting code), but it's still a pretty big undertaking.
My home laptop is dual booted with Windows 7 now for Lightroom and Netflix watch instantly...
P.S. I'd encourage your friends to cast their votes as well. If there's any way to ensure it doesn't happen it'd be for this post to have only a couple of votes!
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kevin_chamberlain
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pascal_obry
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9 years ago
So yes count me in! I've even said that I'm ready to pay twice the price for Lightroom on GNU/Linux, I'm not joking, I'd pay that and right away!
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stefan_kaiser
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9 years ago
I have paid for my home banking application on linux and I would pay for Lightroom too.
Best regards
Stefan
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pascal_obry
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john_monteiro
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9 years ago
I would willingly pay again if LR was ported to Linux or at least stable under Wine.
John
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olivier_rogers
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vincent_ozon
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9 years ago
I vote for a GNU/Linux version of LightRoom.
I just notice that BibbleLabs (a little bit smaller than Adobe) edits a GNU/linux version of Bibble. Why Adobe can't do that ?
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kaibehrends
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pascal_obry
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john_beardsworth
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j_g_m
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9 years ago
I'm a linux user for several years now, I got really in to photography this year and I would be willing to buy Adobe Lightroom in the blink of an eye if there was a linux version. I was tempted to buy a windows version but decided against, it simply because I don't want to support Adobes negligence of the linux community (e.g. not even bother to optimize lightroom to run in wine or creating a native linux version). And for the moment i can make due with the alternatives. I do realise however, that there are many people who would like to use linux but don't have this choice, since they earn their living as photographers.
But I am also quite sure, that there are a lot of linux users like me who would be willing to pay, but who don't need lightroom urgently enough to get the windows version. Let's face it linux users tend to be a bit geeky or just plain nerds. And those two share at least one characteristic; they are passionate about there hobbies. Therefore I assume quite a lot of them would be willing to spend the money on Lightroom, since it really isn't that expensive compared to other photo gear.
I hope I can encourage others to join in and help Adobe convince there is a market for their products in the linux community. We are willing to pay!
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nigel_drego
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