Verdict: No
No. ACD Systems builds Photo Studio for Windows and Mac only, with no Linux version and no browser version. digiKam covers the browsing and tagging, and RawTherapee covers the raw editing.
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate lists Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 as its requirements, with a separate Mac edition. Linux appears nowhere, there is no web edition, and the licence you bought does not carry over to anything that runs on Linux.
ACDSee does two jobs at once, which is why people stick with it. It is a fast folder browser with ratings, keywords and a database, and it is also a photo editor with layers. On Linux you will probably end up using two apps instead of one.
digiKam takes the browsing half. It handles folders, thumbnails, ratings, colour labels, keywords and face tagging, and it is free. For the editing half, RawTherapee handles raw files with more control than ACDSee gives you, and GIMP handles layers and retouching.
Your photos move across untouched because they are ordinary JPEG, TIFF and raw files. What does not move is the ACDSee database. Before you leave Windows, use ACDSee's option to write ratings and keywords into the files themselves, because digiKam reads those and cannot read the database.
Free organiser with ratings, keywords, face tagging and a light editor built in. The nearest single app to what ACDSee does.
Your files: Reads ratings and keywords embedded in your photos or in XMP sidecars. Cannot read the ACDSee database, so write metadata to files before you leave Windows.
Free raw developer with detailed control over exposure, colour and noise. Use it for the editing ACDSee did on raw files.
Your files: Opens the same raw, JPEG and TIFF files. ACDSee edit history does not transfer.
For the layers and retouching side of ACDSee Ultimate. Free, and laid out quite differently.
Your files: Opens JPEG, TIFF and PNG, plus .psd files. No ACDSee format support.
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need ACDSee Photo Studio. Everything else you do can move.
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