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Re:Ask HN: Why Won't Adobe Release for Linux? by PaulHoule on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:07PM (#21597263)
X Windows.

GUI toolkits on Linux are in bad shape. The GUI toolkits for the Mac have nothing to do with Unix.

Windows has been through more widget sets than I can name, but has hidden that from the average non-observant muggle. On Linux they get some widget set to almost work, then make a new version that breaks things and repeat the cycle. Font metrics are all wrong so that text renders on top of other text but nobody seems to care. GUI toolkit developers are notorious for being unresponsive to user concerns. (e.g. a bug in GTK that prevented GTK apps from working right on a Windows X server that draws individual windows was marked as 'don't fix' because the developers think Microsoft is evil and you are too if you use Windows)

On top of that, Adobe might be able to get their product to work on a particular release of Ubuntu, but Linux advocates won't be pleased with that, it has to be whatever version of whatever distro they use.

Adobe right doesn't want to get involved in that s-tshow.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Won't Adobe Release for Linux? by lovelearning on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:53PM (#21601447)
While the issues you point out may be correct, the existence of popular cross-platform and cross-distro graphics software like Blender and Krita suggests that they're solvable.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Won't Adobe Release for Linux? by thayne on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:00AM (#21603182)
I doubt there is very much usage of builtin widgets in CC, from what I've seen the UI in photoshop and indesign doesn't look like native widgets. Now, that's not to say that they don't use OS-specific API's, they probably make heavy use of DirectX and maybe Metal, but I don't think the widget toolkits would be a big blocker for most of adobe's products.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Won't Adobe Release for Linux? by ethanpil on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:40PM (#21597706)
Even if they only release for one distro to start I'm sure they can find one that is popular enough. Especially with some financial incentive from the distro maker... It would probably make the distro instantly more popular...
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