

By the way, Adobe have good products overall. Adobe, even with competition, can have a space to be alone, not only with a good products but with good parterships. I am considering free alternatives, is a different thing. Personally, I don't how much time I will keep with macOS just because of Adobe. There is no technological or cost issues, there is a strategic issue, it's about Adobe's policy, that's all - IMO. In my Linux PCs there is a lot of third part good apps as OneDrive, Zoom, Google stuff as Chrome itself. As for thiny market share (low demand), there is a lot of ways to deal with, there is developers capable and willing to deal with in a "symbiotic" relationship with Adobe as there is for a lot of other cases. I won't say it is easy, but is manageble to develop and publish for both taking advantage of similar features of these Unix like OSes (I personally thought Linux is easyer). I work with MacOS and Linux Mint / Ubuntu. Lighter, stable and safe, they won't try to seel you stuff all the time, won't keep digging in your personal life and they're not made to be a part of scheduled obsolescence of the harware. Modern Linux distributions are better OS overal than macOS and Windows. So Adobe will keep with their old partners for now, even with a B plan with Linux - I won't doubt they keep a hidden Linux project.

Both are greedy, powerful, not a company you will want against you, if you want to make money. The main point to me is Linux is a real thread to Adobe's partners, as Microsoft and Apple. However, to make money you have to keep your eye on your customers, that's why Adobe keep suport for old OS (both MS and Apple) even with the difficulties of keep building patches for it - everithing is old, nothing will work as expected anymore etc., many times more difficult than port to other different but updated OS.

Of course Adobe is not a public foundation, the main objective is to make money.
