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A perfect example are front-end developers. It can be tough for anyone to make a living in that line of work without being able to edit/open photoshop and illustrated without having to configure wine.

I truly believe Adobe holding back their products is one of the largest roadblocks linux has to get widespread adoption amongst the design/developer community.

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I'd be surprised if Adobe isn't at least looking into this, especially considering their sometimes sour relationship without Apple.

A lot of the more "arty" people I know would consider giving them a Windows computer to use as a personal insult and would probably be more open to switching to Linux than Windows.

Getting arty people to use desktop Linux could be a huge net positive if they decide to help "pretty" the place up a bit.

It's certainly nice when UI/UX people run GNU/Linux distributions. Daniel Foré is in charge of Elementary OS [1]. Because he's a designer, the project already has a proper set of Human Interface Guidelines [2], a set of uniquely designed (and easy to use) core applications [3], and a beautifully coherent look to the entire OS and website.

[1]: http://elementaryos.org/ [2]: http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines [3]: http://elementaryos.org/discover

I love Linux for general hacking, but not having Adobe tools is a huge blow when it comes to working on a design. It's almost insurmountable.

Exactly this, I'm a designer, and I like the look of ubuntu, but it's no macOS, it's hard to see an advantage that linux has over macs apart from the price - but designers need fast (expensive) machines anyway. No Adobe is the reason I can't even contemplate a switch.

I love blender though, my 3D tool of choice so at least 3D artists are well catered for.

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