Should Adobe port Premiere to Linux ?

So, a specific feature request has been garnering a lot of attention recently on the Adobe forums, for porting Premiere to Linux. Let's take a look at the ins and outs.

The feature request: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/36257581-yes-please-support-linux-this-would-be-a-huge-m

1 - The feature request This feature request has reached more than 7000 votes, putting it on the very top of the various feature requests. It was mainly helped by the promotion of Jason Evangelho, a tech writer for Forbes whith a large Twitter following. It received so much help, in fact, that it triggered Adobe's spam filter, which resulted in the feature request being taken offline for a few hours. What is basically asks for is porting Premiere to Linux.

2 - Adobe's reponse: Adobe noticed the request, and they actually gave a constructive reply. Patrick palmer, the principal product manager for Editing at Adobe left a reponse indicating that, while the feature request was noted and taken into account, it would prompt a market analysis first, and then a decision to port would be made, or not. Palmer apparently has exeperience with porting stuff to Linux, as he says in his answer, and he underlines an important point porting to Linux is actually equivalent to porting to multiple OSes: you have to target and test for a few distributions, and that requires work.

3 - My thoughts I have a few thoughts on the matter.

• First, the Linux ecosytem has never been more ready: with SteamPlay, Valve proved there was enough interest in the system to invest on Linux, and the distribution of software has never been easier, with flatpaks and Snaps. The advances in wine and its graphics pipeline also could enable av Wine port of Premiere, with less effort than would be required by a complete re-development of the software, to try and feel how the market is reacting.

• Second, Premiere, and the Adobe suite in general is considered the last missing link for prople to move to Linux. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but for people heavily invested in the Adobe platform, using something else is simply not possible: you have years, decades of archives, certain codecs, a particular workflow, and, most importantly, complete integration with the rest of the creative cloud suite.

And that brings me to my third point: porting Premiere by itself won't be enough. While it would be a great step to show that major publishers care about Linux, it would not be satisfactory to most Adobe users. The Adobe suite is an integrated whole: you can use what you made within any program inside another. So giving these users only premiere still requires them to go back to windows or Mac to create a transition with after effects, for example, or some graphics wi ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3qs4E7EG8