I’d love to see this happen, but I don’t think this will ever happen.
it might run most of the world in the server space, because of its small foot print and reliability.
However DXO is not in the server software market and are in the end user market so they don’t have any real incentive to spend time and money in developing for it.
If it was not for the linux community there would be no real end user software on linux, which is a shame but its a fact.
If there was money in selling software on linux, companies would be doing it. I would love for linux to be a real option but it’s just not and will never be until large end user software companies adopt it.
The only real reason Valve are pushing it for games is because their hardware runs linux. So what is needed is some of the big software companies to develop natively for linux and others will eventually follow.
Its a bit of chicken and egg really, until you have software on there that user are use to using linux is not a viable option, but until you have a big enough user base there is no point in developing for it.
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I’ve been using Kubuntu since October 2025, and it would be great if DxO PhotoLab could be used here too!
I don’t know if you’re aware but almost any windows application can run on Linux through virtualization. It used to be annoying as you had to run a whole windows inside a virtual machine but now you have tools that make it indistinguishable from a native app by running a self contained minimal OS inside an application window. On fedora they’re called bottles. The most annoying part of doing that with DxO is their licensing system (not being able to revoke an activation without contacting support is crazy in 2026).
By “bottles”, I assume that you mean Wine under Linux. I use the licensed-for-fee supported version of Wine: CrossOver. I can discuss the details of the differences between a MS Windows API emulator (Wine/CrossOver) and a virtual machine running “native” MS Windows if there is interest on this forum. I run DxO PL Elite complete current production under MS Win 10 (eventually, I must convert the VM to MS Win 11) within an Oracle VirtualBox current production VM; I also have Broadcom VMWare. Are you able to get DxO PL current production completely (all “functions”) and reliably to run within a “bottle”? If so, do you get regular access to the actual hardware GPU of the Linux environment? I use Ubuntu LTS current production (soon to do an in-place upgrade to the next major production release) to run my system (SAN storage) and on my laptop, etc. As for the DxO license management system, if I were to run DxO in a CrossOver bottle I would obtain the necessary license to have multiple “simultaneous” installed instances. The current DxO “call home” license is both awkward and inconvenient, particularly when I have my laptop in the field and have no Internet connection (I have a USA mobile 5G to IEEE 802.11 “wifi” hotspot but I do not have a “satellite” hotspot and thus can be in a location at which I have no “service”).