[stoppingdown]

Count me as part of the crowd hating that cloud stuff, and being worried too (I only use LR, but I see it potentially at stake too).

 

I'm an expert of operating system (my primary job is computer engineering) and I agree about the fact that Linux isn't good for the digital media workflow. A few years ago I tried it for a relatively long time (about one year) to make a reasonable assessment of it, and it isn't good. It's excellent for some other kinds of things.

 

I think that we have the risk that sooner or later we will have to abandon LR / PS. It's not that there are not alternatives (in addition to the above mentioned one I'd add Capture One) - I'm worried about the import capabilities; I mean, I don't think that I can import all the photos I edited so far into a different software than LR and have exactly the same post-processed look. 

 

PS As far as I know there are also other points: for instance, I'm not sure that other applications provide also the cataloguing features in LR. But in the past - in the period I was trying Linux - I wrote myself an application to catalog media (including geotagging) and it's not hard at all. The real problem is post-processing.