News - Adobe ceasing development of AIR for desktop Linux

[HEXUS]

Will focus on mobile, instead.

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[aidanjt]

I haven't used AIR on anything. I reluctantly use flash, much less that worthless pile.

[AlexKitch]

Dear Adobe,

Please stop adding dozens of updater applications, utility processes and quick-launch services to my system start-up without my permission every single time I install any piece of your software. I'm fed up of trawling msconfig to disable them all.

Thanks.

[oolon]

I haven't used AIR on anything. I reluctantly use flash, much less that worthless pile.

The only thing I use AIR for is iPlayer Desktop, it will be a shame to lose access to that on linux.

[crossy]

Dear Adobe,

Please stop adding dozens of updater applications, utility processes and quick-launch services to my system start-up without my permission every single time I install any piece of your software. I'm fed up of trawling msconfig to disable them all.

Thanks.

And I get a mental picture of the following reply
(this isn't an actual reply, before someone accuses me of working for Adobe)

Dear AlexKitch

Thank you for your interest in Ad0be products. After careful consultation with our technical support department our suggested solution to your problem is to migrate your systems to Linux. Our few products on that platform have not been subject to the 'improvement' process that you have noticed on our Windows platformed products. Hence the many "user convenience" features mentioned in your question are not present. Please note that, unfortunately, there is only a limited product portfolio available on the Linux platform, so you may have to replace some of your current Ad0be products with 3rd party alternatives which may be less capable.

We trust that this answers your question satisfactorily, and that we can continue to count on you as a valued Ad0be customer in future.

Regards, Ad0be

Hmm, still don't think I've got the hang of this "satire" thing, back to reading "Private Eye" ...


Actually, whilst I'm not a big fan of AIR, any event that makes Linux a "second class citizen" as far as OS's go is not to be welcomed. I use Reader on my Ubuntu desktop and I've got to say that it's actually pretty good - notably more responsive and stable than the current version on my Windows7 tower.