The inability to use Adobe Creative Cloud on Linux is often cited as a major barrier for many users considering a switch to the platform. But perhaps, just perhaps, there has already been a breakthrough in that direction.
A community developer says they have resolved long-standing Wine compatibility issues that prevented Adobe Creative Cloud installers from completing on Linux, publishing a patchset and prebuilt binaries that they claim enable installation of Photoshop 2021 and Photoshop 2025.
Would like to see some confirmation, but this is probably the #1 thing I see people say is holding them back.
Every day people, no. Mainly Youtubers.
Well… Youtubers (and other creatives) are the main awareness funnel for everyday people to hear about linux in the first place.
Creatives are typically stuck on windows because their workflow doesn’t work on linux. And yes, they can change their workflow, but there’s also a high time + effort cost to doing that which gets even higher for them since they still need to produce their works while switching.
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This should be applicable to “alternatively sourced” PS installs too then?
alternatively sourced
I think old versions pre-adobe cloud have been working pretty well for a long time, IIRC. It’s really the latest versions that most companies force employees to use that are messed up.
But Adobe cloud is, like, 12 years old now IIRC so you’d have to be using a pretty old version.
CS 6 still works just fine
Still haven’t gotten After Effects working in wine. Everything else that I use from my master collection works well though.
Their dumb installer is a web app incorrectly displayed under wine. If you install an Adobe program in a virtual machine then copy its files not every program works. Like Premiere doesn’t work but Photoshop and Audition seems to work.
I am a Krita user that works on Windows using whiskey or maybe cheap beer.
…just Photoshop? Why does this text seem to conflate the words Creative Cloud and Photoshop?
Maybe people will shut the fuck up about Photoshop not working on Linux now. (Not saying it’s not a valid complaint, I just get tired of hearing it.)
People could use gimp, they do not need adobe crap to cut out background in photos.
But muh AI doing the cutting for me!
Idk what else doesn’t work in Gimp, except for some 64-bit color or somesuch.
“Nooo you shouldn’t have to update apps from terminal. AVERAGE USER is too scared. They will never be able to remember like three letters. AVERAGE USER is dumb you see. They want to be babied by their own computer. AVERAGE USER also doesn’t know how to google for alternatives. It’s just the typical AVERAGE USER.
Anyway, adobe photoshop…”God I get so frustrated when people argue on the behalf of these mythical other people, but you seldom to never actually see anyone arguing this as something they’d like.
Like just say you’d like things to be easier for you to use, it’s a valid statement.
…but why?
I guess if you have a ton of adobe specific assets and must be able to use adobe software because of legacy projects this might be useful but it just feels like tech debt.
coupled with the fact that tons of accessible software now can open psd and ai filetypes… :| hooray, I guess?
but for fuck’s sake people get off the creative cloud it’s turning into ai smog
Affinity isn’t Linux compatible yet, and Gimp has a steep learning curve (the photoshop-ification plugin for new Gimp users isn’t well advertised)
Meanwhile I’m over here struggling to get lutris to load battlenet so I can legally play my D2R lol
Why is the headline so incredulous of the literal developer who authored the patches?
because journalism never existed in the first place
Can someone recommend an alternative with similar features to Premiere Pro?
Davinci Resolve maybe? They have a native Linux launcher and a free trial
Kdenlive may have all the features you need, I’m not familiar with Premiere Pro
I looked at it last night; the interface looks out of the 90’s. And the cross dissolve is weird.
But thanks!
Not sure how I feel about wine these days. It brings things to Linux that has wonderful replacements now. We go to Linux to escape the gunk. Not to bring the gunk.
