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Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine (linuxiac.com)

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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.

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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 0 points 7 hours ago

Why does everyone talk like Photoshop is the only program Adobe makes?

It's because most professional creative jobs require raster image editing in at least some part of the production pipeline and photoshop fulfils that need in the adobe suite, so it's the most talked about product in that suite.

For linux, we have great:

Video editing (Davinci Resolve)
3d (Blender)
Digital Art (Krita)

But raster image editing isn't in that list.

There's things like GIMP, but it's always behind photoshop. It only got non-destructive editing less than a year ago (which is what most serious creatives need to use), but photoshop's had that since CS2 back in 2005!

If someone actually wanted to beat adobe (e.g. the EU or wikimedia), they would have to pay for 20 developers to work on graphite and you'd probably have something better than GIMP or Inkscape after 7 years, something better than Affinity in 12 years, and something better than photoshop in 15 years.