Comment by saurik

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation (which I am not saying is a horrible thing or anything--it is even a strength in some sense--but there is a reason why the Android ecosystem, even with all of its notorious fragmentation--feels much easier to target for games and GUI applications than "Linux", despite being Linux). The main thing that would have made this effort maybe useless before was the lack of a word processor and a spreadsheet in their application lineup, but a lot of the world has already moved on from Word and Excel to web-hosted solutions--whether from Google or from Microsoft--and so the main barriers left are these "not really likely to become web any time soon" (due to the amount of data involved) tools like Photoshop and Premier and Audition. Hell: if they partner with Valve/Steam--who is making great strides on Linux for games recently--they could quite possibly destroy Windows as a pro-user market.