Re:Ask HN: Why Won't Adobe Release for Linux?
by ethanpil on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:24PM
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I think much of this has been solved with systems like appimage and snap. While they are not super Linuxy or in the spirit of the community, people have come to understand why companies with a huge investment into proprietary IP like Adobe would only invest in Linux with something like these available to them.
Also, Acrobat Reader has been available for Linux (https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-adobe-acrobat-reader-...).
I guess they abandoned that because of the support load required (supporting Linux can be hard because of the proliferation of distributions with different directory layouts, font engines, etc. Most users may be on one of at most a handful distributions, but the few that aren’t can cause high support costs)