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Linux alternatives to Adobe products
Let’s look at some popular (and free) alternatives to Adobe products.
Adobe products are perhaps some of the most used software applications in the world. They have software for a range of multimedia and content creation tasks, from Lightroom and Photoshop for photographers and artists, through to audio and video production tools, and various things in between.
It’s commercial software, generally available these days on a subscription payment option these days. I doubt anyone would argue that their software is probably some of the best on Windows and Mac systems. Despite this, and my personal belief that they would also be popular on Linux, they don’t build it for Linux at all.
I believe this comes back to what I’ve mentioned previously, where it’s too much work to ensure their software works on every distro and dealing with customer support for someone on some old or random distro they couldn’t possibly test on.
Anyway, so since it’s not an option to have their products working (natively at least), let’s look at some alternatives. Please bear in mind that these aren’t going to be 1:1 replacements for all the features and functions. It’s hard for free and open source software to compete with the R&D of Adobe, but these are some free and open source…
