I work with MacOS and Windows, my company pays for adobe creative cloud.

The intel mac I'm using is having it's support dropped this year, and some of our Windows pcs are unable to upgrade to Windows 11. There are already computers on the company that run Linux and it's not out of the realm of possibility a switch to linux for most departments.

If Creative Cloud is not there to charge us I reckon someone will. Perhaps Figma?

Think about it this way. Microsoft is driving more and more users away from Windows.
People are willing to re-learn another platform and abandon your product in order to avoid dealing with Microsoft. That number is growing, not shrinking. The question is how much of that market share do you want to lose? If I relearn another platform then 2 years later Adobe enters the Linux game, I'm not coming back. You've had the opportunity for years.

I am a long time adobe user of the photography applications. Followed the forum trail here to illustrator to talk about ALL major adobe apps on Linux.

I use Linux full time, and a major proponent of FOSS and have moved away from your software. I am finding the FOSS photography applications available to be lacking unlike other professional software like Blender and Resolve. With micro$oft shoving AI down everyone’s throats now and forcing people to use an insecure operating system that was vibe coded, more people are switching to Linux for a stable and simpler user computing experience than ever. Adobe is in a unique position here. Photoshop and Lightroom would be one of the few applications I’d purchase as a Linux user and FOSS advocate. Just for the love of all that is holy please do not only make it a snap package.

I prefer Linux over windows because of its privacy and speed, but I have to use Premier pro and Photoshop regularly for school and hobby projects. I need to keep switching systems when I want to use it, and it is a pain. Sometimes I am thinking of alternatives because of it, and I know I am not alone.
I happen to know a lot of people who does not have creative cloud, because they are on Linux, but are prepared to but it once it gets supported.

I use Substance painter on a daily, and i can't stand where microsoft is going nowadays. as someone who uses blender, and Unity, i need this program in between and tried every possible way i could to run substance alongside the other programs, which are natively supported while i tried to be on linux. it would be revolutionary for artists worldwide if this were a possibility to just have it be capable of running, let it be photoshop, substance, illustrator, etc. the whole cloud even. this would open doors for many people.

I'm going to have to agree with Kelly O'Brien, I'd have Windows off both my wife's and my computers if we didn't need it to access Adobe.

Heck, get a deal with Steam going and sell and ship the Adobe suite across Steam and the new Steambox. Get into the linux market with another company pushing in the same direction.

I would drop Windows and Mac OS in a heartbeat if I could get Adobe on Linux. PLEASE, I so want to drop those OSs. The only reason you don't have more people on Linux is because of issues like this.

Adobe bought Substance painter which had Full Linux support, and decided to kill it. That's the kind of company we're dealing with.

We need adobe on linux as soon as possible!

The fact that its ported to run in XNU/MacOs means 95% of the work is done and to me feels like a direct affront to those who either use a Linux distribution as a choice or those who are too poor to make any other; and thanks to distribution agnostic package management options like Appimage or flatpak Adobe doesn't even need to fight against package name divergence or dependency aliasing to support nearly every flavour of linux available.

Maybe I'm a cynic, but this is an intentional and malicious choice on the part of Adobe.

Hi, I switched to Linux Fedora and can only recommend Affinity. There are plenty of workflows for installing it on Linux, even though it's not officially available for Linux. And the coolest thing is that it's been free to get and use since around November 1st, 2025. The only thing that costs money is the AI ​​function, but it's worth the money.

I'm curious to see how long Adobe will continue to ignore Linux.

The same goes for Autodesk and 3ds Max; they're now pinning their hopes on Maya (which works on Linux) because otherwise Blender (great software) will attract many users.

The Adobe Suite is the only thing keeping me on Windows anymore. As Windows 10 becomes deprecated, I will have to Adobe with Windows, and I don't want to drop Adobe. I will be moving to Linux regardless but it would be nice to take my workflow and apps I appreciate from Adobe with me.

please, adobe needs to get on Linux. I'm using linux as a software developer but i'm using a partition of windows just to use adobe creative cloud. I'd love to keep linux only system. It could be a good things for linux and adobe. The firts one get good software and more linux enthusiast, while adobe get more subscriptions.

It is hard to justify the position of Adobe on this matter in a technical point of view. At this point to not support Linux is harmful for all. Microsoft can't have this, and Adobe can't push its user to Apple-land.
Give us native Linux applications, this is the best for all and is good to force Microsoft to actually work on Windows to make it better.

Me too. Once Adobe is available on Ubuntu/Linux, it’s goodbye to Windows. Doing this would allow enterprise systems to perform much better and enable remote workers to operate without actually retaining any of the software locally.

If we had that option, it would also let us use hardware from around 2015–2019.

I fear Adobe is moving toward a cloud-only model, which would be both good and bad. Bad, because we’d lose access to stable, locally installed software. Good, because it would most likely run everywhere.

I also request and entreat to increase the support of this software for Linux (including those distributions based on packages such as dpkg rpm pacman flatpak and etc.). Much thanks.

Please add support to Linux.

They are not supporting Linux due to political issues. They would do it if they are allowed to do. But in reality, the US government is preventing them so Windows will not end. Don't not forget that Windows/Microsoft are a major income to the US economy.

Following years may things change since the OS is not any more making money is it used to be.

We can't use Linux because there is no adobe support. Adobe can't support Linux because we're not in there. It just a paradox. Please support Linux!

With more and workloads being now available in the browser, and mopst browsers being cross-platform, they de-facto become OS agnostic. As a Linux user, the only thing preventing me to discard a clunky Win11 machine is the Adobe suite. Even the whole Microsoft suite or powerful tools like Figma are fully web-based.
This is now CRITICAL as Adobe products are the LAST ones on my list that need to be available for Linux.
Another big advantage of switching to Linux OS is its much more efficient use of hardware sources compared to Windows. This will result in significant performance improvement for self-made PC users (like me) who choose high spec components.